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
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'I have done what I should just from seeing you, sir.' So assured by me, the Khecara flew up and went away.
Carudatta's adventures resumed (205-302)
I went home and in course of time attained youth, amusing myself as I liked with friends, making a feast for my parents' eyes. At my parents' command I married the daughter, Mitravati, of my maternal uncle, Sarvartha, on an auspicious day. Devoted to the arts, I did not become devoted to pleasure with her.55 My parents noticed that and I was judged, ' He is inexperienced.'
Then I was urged by my parents into frivolous society for the sake of social experience and I frequented gardens, et cetera, at will. For twelve years I stayed, amusing myself, in the house of the courtesan, Vasantasenā, daughter of Kalingasenā. There sixteen crores of gold were spent without my realizing it and (then) I was driven out by Kalingasenā because He has no money.
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After learning of my parents' death, miserable, I took courage and took my wife's ornaments to engage in business. One day I started out with my maternal uncle and with the ornaments I bought cotton in Uśīravartinagara. As I was going to Tamralipti, the cotton was burned in a forest-fire. My uncle abandoned me, saying, 'He is unlucky.' Then I went alone horseback toward the west. My horse died and then I went on foot. Worn out by a very long road, terrified by hunger and thirst, I went to Priyangunagara which was full of merchants. There I was seen by Surendradatta, a friend of my father. Welcomed like a son with clothes, food, et cetera, I stayed comfortably.
Having borrowed at interest a lac, though he opposed me, I embarked on the ocean in a boat with merchandise bought
55 207. Carudatta's adventures start out very similarly to those of Dhammila in the Dhammilakatha. His adventures are narrated in the VH, pp. 133 ff., which the Trişaşti" does not follow exactly.