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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MARRIAGES OF VASUDEVA WITH MAIDENS
at all, the muni went to his own shelter and again commenced a month's fast in the same way.
The king went there again by chance and again saw him. Remembering his invitation, he apologized cleverly. Again he invited him and again he forgot in the same way. Again he (the ascetic) went back to his own place without eating at all. Again the king, remembering, apologized as before. The ascetic was invited again and now became angry. As a result of this penance may I be able to kill him in another birth." After making this nidana, he died from fasting.
Early life of Kansa (62-104)
He then became (an embryo) in the womb of Ugrasena's wife, Dhāriņi, and she had a pregnancy-whim 48 to eat her husband's flesh. Day by day Dhāriņi grew thinner, ashamed. Finally she told her husband her base pregnancy-whim. His ministers put hare's flesh on the stomach of the king, who remained in the dark, and cut it off again and again and gave it to the queen who looked on. When her pregnancy-whim was gratified and she returned to her original nature, she said, "What is the use of life, what is the use of the embryo without a husband?" The ministers said to her wishing to die, "In a week we will show you the master restored to life." When she had been cured in this way, on the seventh day they showed her Ugrasena; and she held a great festival.
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On the auspicious fourteenth 49 day of the dark half of Pausa, the moon being in Mula, during the night Ugrasena's chief-queen bore a son. Afraid of the embryo because of the pregnancy-whim, as soon as he was born she cast him into a brass chest she had had made in advance. She had a slavegirl throw the chest, which was full of jewels together with a letter fastened to two rings marked with her own and the king's names, into the Yamuna. The queen told the king, " A son was born and is dead."
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For dohada, a pregnancy-whim, see Parśva., p. 204.
For the fourteenth, see I, n. 301.