Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

SR No.: 001003
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1949
Total Pages: 441
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 10 MB

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CHAPTER ONE
“You have seen the strength of the cakra which you hurled at me, after making such a loud roaring, like the strength of an elephant against a mountain. Go! Go, now! Who will kill you, fool, an old man, badly behaved like a cat?" .
When he heard that, Hayagrīva, biting his lip with his teeth, his body trembling with anger, frowning, said: "Miserable boy, you are intoxicated by obtaining that piece of iron, all the more by getting it from me, like a lame man by obtaining fruit that has fallen from a tree. Throw it! Throw it! See my strength also. I will split the cakra, as it falls, with my fist.”
Then Vaikuntha (Triprstha), whose force was unblunted, angered, whirled the cakra in the sky and hurled it at Hayakantha. It cut off Aśvakantha's head like a plantain-stalk. For the Praticakrins are killed by their own cakras. The Khecaras, delighted, rained flowers on Sārngin's head and gave loud cries of "Hail! Hail!” The sound of lamentation arose in the wretched army of Hayagrīva, making the atmosphere, too, lament with echoes. His people held Hayagriva's cremationceremonies, making the oblation of water, as it were, with tears flowing from their eyes. After his death Hayagriva became a hell-inhabitant in the seventh hell with a life of thirty-three sägaropamas.
Just then the chief-gods in the sky, said: "O kings, all of you give up your pride entirely. Give up your support of Hayagriva which was honorable for a long time and, furthermore, seek Triprştha, the best refuge, with devotion. He, the first Väsudeva, has arisen here, long-armed, lord of the land of three parts of Bharatakşetra." When they heard this divine speech, all of Hayagrīva's kings approached and bowed to the younger brother of Acala. With hands folded submissively they said, “Pardon us for whatever crime we committed from ignorance and subjection to another. Henceforth,