Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 2

SR No.: 001002
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1937
Total Pages: 438
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 9 MB

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BIRTH OF AJITA AND SAGARA
like seeds of the joy of the world, with garments on all sides as if they had been taken from the kalpa-trees, with very beautiful chariots and draft-animals like those of the Jyotişkas; renewed in every house, in every market and cross-roads, the city looked like Alakā.
Vaijayanti's dreams (65-85)
Sumitra's wife, Vaijayanti, also called Yaśomati, saw these same dreams that night. Then Vijayā and Vaijayanti passed the rest of the night awake, rejoicing like blooming night-lotuses. At dawn Lady Vijaya related the dreams to Jitaśatru and Vaijayanti to Sumitravijaya. After he has considered with an honest mind the dreams of Queen Vijaya, the King explains the fruit of the dreams as follows: "By these dreams, O Queen, a son, eminent in the three worlds, will surely be born to you, like the increase of glory by merit, like the acquisition of superior knowledge by study of the scripture, like the illumination of the world by the sun's rays."
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While the King was considering the fruit of the dreams according to his knowledge, Sumitravijaya came, nounced by the door-keeper. After bowing to the King like a god, the ground touched by five parts of the body," Sumitravijaya sat down in the proper place. The Prince
13. sali, rice grown under water and reaped during winter, Oryza sativa.
14. aḍhaki, pigeon-pea, Cajanus Indicus, arahar (H).
15. kalāya, pea, Pisum, maṭar (H). Hem. in com. to Abhi. 4. 236 gives tripuța as synonym, as does Pravac., com. to 996. I found no other citation of tripuța, but tripuți is identified with Lathyrus sativus. 16. kulattha, horse-gram, Dolichos biflorus, kalathi (Guj.),
kulathi (H).
17. sana, hemp, Cannabis sativa. Vern, bhang from Sk. bhanga,
a synonym of sana.
For these identifications I have consulted mainly Watt and Dutt, besides the lexicons. All the dhanyas in this list seem to be identified
with fair certainty.
04 72. See I, n. 327.
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