Story of Creation of Woman

In the beginning, when Twastri (Divine Artificer) came to the creation of a woman he found that he had exhausted his materials in the making of the man and that no solid elements were left. In this dilemma, after profound meditation, he did as follows: 

He took the rotundity of the moon and the curves of creepers, clinging of tendrils, the trembling of grass, the slenderness of the reed, the bloom of flowers, the lightness of leaves, the tapering of the elephantís trunk, the glances of deer, the clustering of rows of bees, the joyous gaiety of sunbeams, the weeping of clouds, the fickleness of the winds, the timidity of the hare, the vanity of the peacock, the softness of parrotís bosom, the hardness of adamant, the sweetness of honey, the cruelty of the tiger, the warm glow of the fire, the coldness of the snow, the chatterings of jays, the cooing of the kokila, the hypocrisy of the crane, the fidelity of chakravaka and compounding this together he made woman and gave her to man.