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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SUBHŪMACAKRAVARTĪCARITRA Then Subhūma, golden, twenty-eight bows tall, attained marvelous growth in the hermitage like a tree in a court-yard. One day the Vidyadhara, Meghanāda, asked the astrologers, "To whom should my daughter Padmasri be given ?." They designated Subhūma as the very best husband for her. He gave the girl to him and became a follower of him alone. The sole protector (of the earth), Subhūma, like a frog in a well, asked his mother, “Is the world just so large or is there more of it?" His mother explained: "The world is endless, son. This hermitage is only a fly-speck on the world. There is in the world a city, named Hastināpura. Your father Kộtavīrya, was a longarmed king there. Rāma killed your father and took possession of the kingdom himself. He made the earth free of Ksatriyas and we stay here from fear.” Then Subhūma, blazing like Bhauma,82 went to Hastināpura, hostile and angry. The brilliance of a Kşatriya is hard to bear. He, fair-armed, went to the asylum, sat down on the lion-throne like a lion, and ate the teeth which had become rice-pudding. The Brāhmans who were guardians there arose for battle and were killed by Meghanāda, like deer by a tiger. Then Rāma, his teeth and hair sparkling, biting his lips with his teeth, came there, as if drawn by Yama's. noose, in anger. The axe was hurled furiously by Rāma at Subhūma. It was extinguished immediately in him, like a spark in water. Because of the lack of a weapon, Subhūma scooped up the dish of teeth. It became a.cakra instantly. What can not result from a wealth of merit? Then he, the eighth cakravartin, cut off Paraśurāma's head, like cutting off a lotus.
Conquest of Bharata (101-108) As Rāma had made the earth free of Ksatriyas seven times, so he (Subhūma) made it free of Brāhmạns twentyone times. Making new rivers flow with the blood of the masses of destroyed kings, elephants, horses, infantry, he
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