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CHAPTER TWO pleasing words through my mouth. But your wife is very virtuous. She did not consent to that. She honored me with friendship and she instructed me to bring you. When I had come and had seen you, I did such a thing, 71 wounded by love. You are my lawfully married husband and I am a maiden of good family.”
When the people saw Vegavati at daybreak, they were all astonished. With her husband's permission she told the people about Somaśrī's kidnaping.
Kidnaped by Mānasavega (424-428) One time Vasudeva went to sleep, tired from pleasure with her, and was carried off in the night by Mānasavega, who surpassed Garuda in speed. When Vasudeva knew it, he beat the Khecara with his fist and, injured by the blows, he dropped Vasudeva suddenly into the water of the Bhāgirathi. He fell on the shoulder of a Khecara, Candavega, standing there, engaged in subduing a magic art, and was the cause of the magic art's submission. Výsņi's son was addressed by him: "Noble sir, the magic art was subdued by your power. What can I give you ? " and he asked for the magic art' going-throughthe-air.' The Khecara gave him the magic art and Vasudeva began to subdue it at the gate of Kanakhala with deep coticentration.
Marriage with Madanavegā (429-451) When Candavega had gone, a Khecari, Madanavegā, the daughter of King Vidyudvega, came there and saw him. Wounded by love, she seized Sauri, took him to Mt. Vaitādhya, and released him resembling Puşpacāpa (Kāma) in the garden Puşpaśayana. She herself went to the city Amstadhāra; at dawn three brothers of hers came and bowed to Sauri. The first brother was Dadhimukha, the second Daņdavega, and the third Candavega who had given him the magic art. They
71 422. I.e., tricked him into marriage.
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