Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

SR No.: 001005
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1962
Total Pages: 507
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 11 MB

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VASUDEVA'S MARRIAGE WITH KANAKAVATI
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slave, sir," and, she started to bow to Vasudeva. Daśārha prevented her from bowing and said: "I am your servant. Do not you bow. You are mistress, noble lady. You are correct in bowing to one who would be suitable for you. Do not do a thing unsuitable for me, a servant of unknown family." She replied: Everything about you is known. You, and no one else, are my husband. You are he who was announced by a deity and who was meditated on in the picture." Vasudeva said: "Fair lady, I am not your husband. I am the servant of him who was announced as your husband by the divinity. Let Sakra's lord of the north quarter be known as your husband, namely Dhanada, sun to the lotus-faces of goddesses, famous throughout the world. I am his servant, a messenger, and ask you at his command: Be his chief-queen, attended by goddesses."
She answered: At the mention of Dhanada's name, homage is made. He is a Sāmānika of Śakra on the one hand; I am a worm of a human on the other hand. Surely this improper embassy to me is merely for his amusement. Certainly there has been no previous marriage of mortal women with gods."
Vasudeva said: " Fair lady, if you violate a god's command, you will suffer calamity, like Davadanti."
Kanakavati said: "Because of some connection in a former birth, my mind is eager at hearing the syllables 'Dhanada.' Gods can not endure even the odor of the evilscented audărika body.94 Such are the words of the Arhats. You, and no one else, are my husband, disguised by the trick of an embassy for him. Go and tell the god, lord of the north quarter, my message. 'I am not worthy even to see you. I am a mere mortal. You are entitled to be worshipped by me who have a body of seven elements,95 when I have made an image.'
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94 167. The ordinary human body. See I, n. 157.
95 169. See I, n. 74.
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