who were boasting about their recent defeat of a group of demons. But Kinsley notes: "it is little more than conjecture to identify her with the later goddess Sati-Parvati, although [..] later texts that extol Siva and Parvati retell the episode in such a way to leave no doubt that it was Siva's spouse.." [IAST original].

Sati-Parvati appears in the epic period (400 BCE-400 CE), as both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata present Parvati as Shiva's wife. However, it is