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CHAPTER TWO When he heard that Madanavegā had been given to a mortal, Triśikhara came himself to fight, inflamed with anger. Sauri fought, mounted in a magic chariot with a golden beak which had been given him by the Khecaras, surrounded by Dadhimukha and others. Vārşņeya cut off Triśikhara's head with Indra's weapon,73 released his father-in-law, and went to Divastilaka. A son, Anādhsști, was borne by his wife Madanavegā to Sauri, amusing himself, after he had come to his father-in-law's city.
One day he made a pilgrimage to the temples of eternal Arhats with the Khecaras and was gazed at by enamored Khecarīs again and again. Sauri returned from the pilgrimage and called Madanavegā, “Come, Vegavati," and she went to the couch angrily.
Jarasāndha's hostility (455–458)
At that time Vșşni's son was kidnaped by Triśikhara's wife, Sūrpanakhi, in Madanavegā's form, after she had burned his house. Wishing to kill him, she dropped him from the air near Rājagặha and the scion of the Yadus fell on a pile of straw.
Learning that the city was Rājagļha from the fact that Jarāsandha was being hymned, 74 Sauri went (there), won a crore of gold at dice and gave it to beggars. Then þauri was taken to the palace by guards who had arrested him. He asked the soldiers, “Why am I arrested when I have committed no crime?” They replied: “ Jarāsandha was told by an astrologer,
Whoever wins a crore of gold and gives it to beggars at dawn, his son will be your slayer.' You are he. At the king's command you, though innocent, are to be killed.” With these words, they threw Vasudeva in a bag. From fear of censure they wished to kill Vārşņeya secretly and they threw him from a mountain.
73-448. A thunderbolt. 74 454. Cf. IV, 290; Rās Mālā, p. 190; Prabandhacintamani, pp. 48, 49.
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