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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"Blessed lady, you have wandered over the whole earth independently. So I ask you: Have you seen before anywhere else such a fine group of women as this of mine, Cokṣā?
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CHAPTER SIX
Cokṣā said, smiling: "O king, do you think these women of yours of any importance, like a frog in a well thinking the well big? In the city of Mithila there is Malli, King Kumbha's daughter, a jewel of a maiden, the crest-jewel of gazelle-eyed women. Such beauty is not seen in goddesses and Naga-maidens as there is in her mere finger. The beauty of her figure is extraordinary; her beauty is extraordinary; her wealth of grace is extraordinary. What else is to be said?" Because of this speech of hers and his former affection, Jitaśatru sent a messenger at once to King Kumbha to ask for her.
The device of the statue (144-201)
Seeing the thought of the six kings, her friends in a former birth, by means of clairvoyant-knowledge, Malli had made a golden statue of herself and installed it on a beautiful jeweled platform in an interior room in a palace in a grove of aśokas. The statue had lips of ruby, hair of sapphire, and eyes of sapphire and crystal, hands and feet of coral, a stomach with a hollow tube to the palate, a hole in the palate covered with a golden lotus, and exceedingly beautiful limbs. Kumbha's daughter had six doors with double doors and lattices made in the, front wall of the statue's private room. She had six little private rooms made in front of the doors and one door in the wall behind the statue. Daily she threw a ball of all the foods into the statue's palate, covered it with the golden lotus, and then ate.
Now the messengers of the six kings arrived simultaneously before the King of Mithila. The first messenger said: "The lord of Saketa, whose lotus-feet are rubbed by the heads of many vassals, long-armed, very brave, a Makaradhvaja (Kāma) in beauty, a moon in gentleness,