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damsel perspiring reposed on a stone-pillar Govindacharya was requested to describe that graceful pose. He looks at Suracharya who composes a beautiful verse on the reposing damsel. + The courtiers, being impressed, request Govindacharya to attend the court which he does with his pupil Surachārya. He is requested to prepare a befitting reply and again he looks at his pupil. Suracharya prepares the answer in a Prakṛta gatha. It means: The creator in Bhima, created the destroyer of the sons of the blind one; what does one matter to him to whom a hundred did not matter? Here there is a pun upon the word Bhima and Andhakasuta. Bhima the Pandava killed the hundred sons of the blind Dhṛtarashtra; so this Bhima will easily kill one son of the blind. This gatha confirms the tradition that Sindhula the father of Bhoja was deprived of his eye-sight by his brother Munja.
This Suracharya was a cousin of the king Bhinia, being the son of his maternal uncle Sangrāmasimha. If the mother of Bhima was Lakshmi, younger sister of Mahendra who was the king of Marudesa, we may infer that Sangrāmasimha was a prince of Marudesa. Sangramsaimha died when his son was very young. His name, before he became a Jaina monk was Mahipala. His mother handed him ever for education to a brother of her husband who had become a Jaina monk known as Dronacharya. This Dronacharya was + See the Pra. Ch. p. 246. vs. 20-25. यत्कङ्कणाभरणकोमलबाहुवल्लिसङ्गात् कुरङ्गकदृशो नवयौवनायाः ।
न स्विद्यसि प्रचलसि प्रविकम्पसे त्वं तत्सत्यमेव दृषदा ननु निर्मितोऽसि ॥२६॥ X अन्धयसुयाण कालो भीमो पुहवीइ निम्मिओ विहिणा ।
जेण सयपि म गणिअं का गणणा तुज्झ इक्कस्स || The P C. p. 280
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