Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

SR No.: 001001
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1931
Total Pages: 565
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, Story, N000, & N010
File Size: 11 MB

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birth, as it were. The flatterers will disappear-all of them; but he alone will endure pain from the strong arm of Bahubali. Go, messenger. Let him come with desire for my kingdom and life. The earth belongs to him because I, content with the part given by our father, permit it."
Suvega, clinging to his courage though disturbed in mind, got up and left the council-hall, watched by the kings whose eyes were red with anger, like tigers restrained by snares of the master's firm command; leered at terribly again and again by the princes whose lips were trembling from anger, saying inwardly, "Kill! Kill!" looked at by the body-guards, their belts girded firmly, their swords advanced a little, their brows raised, as if wishing to devour him; considered by the ministers with the thought, "This villain will be killed by some impetuous footman of our master"; made to rise by the door-keeper who had stood with one hand ready and had raised his foot, as if eager to seize him by the neck.
He left the lion-man's lion-gate with stumbling feet, looking at every step at death, as it were, on all sides of himself, from the army at the gate very angry at their inference from the loud words of the angered Lord of Takṣaśila; from the shields being shaken, from the large swords being made to dance, from the cakras being lifted, from the hammers being seized, from the arrows being brandished, from the quivers being pressed out, from the staves being taken up, from the axes being sharpened. Mounted in the chariot, he left the city, hearing the loud speech of the townspeople talking to each other. "Who is this stranger who has gone from the King's door ?" "He is certainly King Bharata's messenger who has come. "Is there some other king here on earth ?" "The elder brother of Bahubali, Lord of Bharata, in Ayodhyā." "Why did he send a messenger here ?" "To summon his brother, King Śrī Bahubali."
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