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 TWO
. In the course of time he died, his mind concentrated in meditation, and became a powerful god in the ninth Graiveyaka.10
His parents (13–25) Now, there is a very magnificent city, Hāstinapura, in Bhārataksetra in this Jambūdvipa. Kings who have come there for the sake of service act like subjects; but subjects, having divine vehicles and finery, act like kings. The circular moat around it looks like a line given at his order by the Creator, in order to make beauty permanent. Numerous gold, crystal, and sapphire shrines there resemble peaks of Mts. Meru, Kailāsa, and Añjana. There Sudarsana, whose appearance was fair like the moon, was chief of kings, like Vstrahan of the gods. Dharma, attendance on whom was never abandoned-neither on the throne nor on the couch, neither in the city nor outside, was like a friend of his. Since his prestige, resembling an efficacious charm, spread, his fourfold collection of soldiers was merely for effect. Daily, elephants that were presents from kings laid the dust in his courtyard with heavy streams of ichor.
His wife was named Devi, the chief-queen, like some goddess who had come, the crest-jewel of the harem. Of course, she did not show anger, even affectionately, toward her husband and, noble by nature, she did not feel jealous of her co-wives. Her husband's favour, her beauty, et cetera did not cause her to be proud; nevertheless she was the crest-jewel among women.11 A likeness of her, whose body was irreproachable, a stream of loveliness, was seen in mirrors, nowhere else. Enjoying pleasures with her, the chief of kings, handsome-armed Sudarsana passed some time like a god.
His birth (26-32) Now Dhanapati's soul in Graiveyaka, immersed in pure bliss, completed its life. It fell on the second day of
10 12. See II, p. 124. 11 23. Pramadā, with a play on mada.