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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CHAPTER ONE prince: “You spoke without reflection. If he should be a criminal, then that would not be a good thing."
Aparājita said firmly: “This is always the ethics of the warrior caste. One who has sought protection must be protected, whether he is a law-breaker or law-abiding."
As the prince was saying this, policemen ran up with sharp swords drawn, crying, “Kill him ! Kill him!” While still at a distance, the policemen said: “Go away, travelers. We are going to kill this man by whom the whole city has been robbed.” The prince said with a smile,“ One who has come to me for protection can not be killed by Sakra even, to say nothing of others.”
When the angry policemen attacked, then the prince ran up with a drawn sword, striking them down like a tiger deer. They fled and reported to their master, the King of Kośala; and the king sent an army, wishing to kill the protectors of the thief. Aparājita defeated the soldiers speedily and the king himself came, surrounded by horsemen and elephant-riders. Aparājita turned the robber over to the minister's son, tightened his belt, and faced his enemy in battle.
Setting his foot on an elephant's tusk, like a lion, he climbed on the boss and killed the elephant-rider seated on the shoulder. Aparājita fought, mounted on the same elephant; and he was described to the king by a minister who had observed him. The King of Kośala ordered his soldiers to stop fighting and said to him:“ You are the son of my friend Hariņandin. Surely you are my friend's son because of that strength. Who, indeed, is equal to an elephant except the young of a lion ? By good fortune you, powerful, have come from your house to your house,” 28 and, seated on an elephant, he embraced him seated on an elephant. The king, affectionate, had him, whose lotus-face was bowed in embarrassment, mount his own elephant and conducted him, like a son, to his own house. The minister's son let the robber go and followed Aparājita;
28 289. I.c., to the house of a friend.