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MARRIAGES OF VASUDEVA WITH MAIDENS 59 At that time Sauri heard a tumult and asked its cause. The door-keeper related:
“There is a town here named Sakatamukha. Its king is named Nīlavat and his wife Nilavati. They have a daughter, Nilāñjanā, and a son, Nila. There was an arrangement in the past between brother and sister that the marriage-festival of a son with a daughter must be celebrated. Nīlañjanā had a daughter, who is your wife Nilayaśas, and there is a son of Prince Nila, Nilakantha by name. Nila asked her in marriage for his son in accordance with the agreement. Questioned by her father about it, Muni Bphaspati said, “The father of Vişņu, lord of half of Bharatavarşa, the best of the Yadus, Vasudeva, Manmatha in beauty, will be her husband.' Brought here by .a magic art, you have been married to her by the king. Nila has come on that account and then the tumult arose.”
Sauri was delighted at hearing that. Playing with her, he saw the Khecaras going to Hrimat in the autumn for magic arts and herbs. He said to her, “I shall be your pupil in acquiring magic arts,” and she agreed. She went to Mt. Hrīmat, taking him along. Knowing that Sauri desired dalliance there, she created a plantain-house and dallied with him. And she saw a peacock. “Look! this peacock has a full tail,” she said, astonished, and the lovely-eyed woman herself ran to catch it. But when she got near the peacock, the rogue of a peacock mounted her on his back and kidnaped her, flying up in the air like Garuda.
Running after him, Sauri came to a herder's station. Entertained with respect by milkmaids, he stayed there for the night and started south in the morning. He came to the village Giritaţa and heard a teacher reciting the Vedas. He asked a Brāhman the reason for his recital. The Brāhman said:
Marriage with Somasri (340–345)
“In Daśagriva's time the Khecara Diväkara gave his very
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| SR No. | 001005 |
| Book Title | Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5 |
| 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 |