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 FOUR
you whose hair is matted, who are gray, emaciated, living by alms?"
Muni Jamadagni, angry, like a wind made the girls hunch-backed like the wooden part of bows that have been strung. Then he saw a daughter of the king playing in sand-piles in the courtyard and he called her 'Reņukā.' He showed her a citron, saying, “Do you want it?” She stretched out a hand indicating the taking of the hand (in marriage). The muni held her to his breast, like a poor man money, and the king gave her to him properly, with Cows, et cetera. From the bond of affection he restored his wife's sisters, the ninety-nine girls, by the power of penance. Alas for the waste of penance of the foolish! The muni took her to the hermitage and affectionately reared her whose appearance was simple and gentle, trembling-eyed like a doe. While the ascetic counted the days on his fingers, she attained youth, the beautiful pleasuregrove of Kandarpa. Making a blazing fire a witness, Muni Jamadagni married her properly, like Bhūteśa (Siva) Pārvati.
At the time for conception he said to her, "I will prepare an oblation that a son may be born, fortunate, head of the Brāhmans.” She said, "My sister is the wife of King Anantavīrya in Hastināpura. Prepare an oblation belonging to Kșatriyas for her." He prepared an oblation suitable for Brāhmans for his wife, and another suitable for Ksatriyas for her sister to eat to obtain a son. She reflected, “Though I became a forest-doe, may my son not be like me," and ate the Ksatriya-oblation. She gave the Brāhman-oblation to her sister. Sons were born to both, Rāma to Renukā and Krtavīrya to her sister.
One day a Vidyadhara came there, suffering from dysentery. He had forgotten his magic art for going through the air because of the pain from the dysentery. He was cured by Rāma, like a brother, by medicines, et cetera and gave the magic art of the axe (pāraśarī) to Rāma who had attended him. Going into a cane-field,