Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

SR No.: 001004
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 449
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 9 MB

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CHAPTER NINE Lakşmaņa regained consciousness. Lakşmaņa said tauntingly: "O Virādha, why have you done this new thing, unsuitable for Rāma's brother, son of Dasaratha ? Take the chariot quickly to that same place where my enemy is. I will cut off his head with the cakra with unerring speed.”
So instructed, Virädha drove the chariot to Ankuśa. Saying, “Stop! Stop!” Laksmana seized the cakra. Whirling it in the air, so it resembled a revolving sun, Saumitri, angered, hurled it with unstumbling speed at Ankuśa. Aðkuśa hit it with arrows many times as it fell, and Lavaņa also with all his heart, but it did not strike back. Falling swiftly the cakra circumambulated Ankusa and returned to Laksmana's hand, like a bird to the nest. Again Laksmana hurled it and it made a circumambulation in the same way and returned to his hand, like an exhausted elephant to its stable. Rama and Lakşmaņa, depressed, thought: “Are these men the Sirin and Särgin in Bhārata, not we?"
Just then the sage Nārada came there with Siddhartha 108 and said to the depressed Rāma and Lakşmaņa: “Why this gloom in the place of joy on your part, Raghüdvahas? Is not defeat by a son for the splendor of any one's family? Lavana and Ankusa here, sons borne by Sītā, have come here to see you under pretext of a battle, but they are not enemies. Proof of this is that your cakra had no power. In the past Bharata's cakra was useless against Bahubali." Nārada told the whole story, from the abandonment of Sītā up to the battle with the sons, which amazed every one. Rāma, confused by astonishment, shame, distress, and joy, fainted and recovered consciousness when he was sprinkled with sandal-water. Filled with affection for his sons, weeping, Räma went quickly to Lavana's and Ankuśa's presence with Lakşmaņa. When they got out
108 149. The boys' tutor. See above, p. 322..