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MARRIAGES OF VASUDEVA WITH MAIDENS 73 Kāmadatta and he has a daughter, Bandhumati. An astrologer questioned by the sheth about a husband for her, said, 'Whoever opens the main door will be your daughter's husband.'”
After hearing that, Vasudeva opened the door. The sheth went there and gave him his daughter immediately.
Marriage with Priyangusundari (517-559) The princess, Priyangusundari, went with her father to see him from curiosity. As soon as she had seen him, she fell in love. A door-keeper related to Vșşņi's son the circumstances of Priyangusundari and the history of Eņiputra, his palms placed together respectfully. “You must go by all means to Priyangusundari's house at dawn.” With these words the door-keeper went away and Sauri watched a play. In it he heard that there was a Khecara, Vāsava, the son of Nami. In his line there were other Vāsavas and Puruhūta, springing from it. One time as Puruhūta was wandering about, mounted on his elephant, he saw Ahalyā, the wife of Gautama, and he dallied with her in the hermitage.79 Then Gautama made him, whose magic arts were gone, a eunuch. After hearing that, Yādava was terrified and did not go to Priyangusundari.
Sauri went to sleep with Bandhumati and at the end of his sleep during the night he saw a goddess and thought, “Who is she?” Saying, “Why do you reflect, my dear?” the goddess took him by the hand and led him to an aśoka-grove. She said:
Eņiputra's history (525–556) “Here in Bharata in the city Śrīcandanapura there was a king Amogharetas. He had a wife, Cārumati, a son, Cārucandra, and a courtesan, Anangasenā. She had a fair-eyed daughter, Kāmapatākā. Ascetics came to the king's sacrifice and among them Kauśika and Trņabindu, teachers. They
79 57. This is quite different from the account in the Rāmāyaṇa, 1.48, 10 N
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