Parshvabhyuday

SR No.: 001704
Original Sutra Author: Jinsenacharya
Author: M G Kothari
Publisher: Gulabchand Hirachand Doshi
Total Pages: 844
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Literature, & Mythology
File Size: 16 MB

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engage Himself in a combat and having His sword unsheathed, should slacken His constant practice of meditation, and having repudiated taciturnity, He, uttering words in the form of thundering sounds, should begin to talk to the proud lady very eloquently and boldly. If at all, in the case of the frightened one, of the one who would be looked upon as a soldier having no weapon or of the one who considers himself womanish, of the one fallen down at the feet, of the one swearing a solemn oath by touching feet, he, the contemptible one, would wield a weapon, then, he said that He should hold him, a cloud, the dear friend of lord Kubera, guilty of assassination. If He, śambara said, were a bit fond of continuing His worldly life further for giving pleasure to the young woman; His beloved, [or for deriving pleasure from the young woman dear to Him ], He, with His self-conceitedness dissipated by raising His hands and embracing his feet, should not be afraid of him. He requested Him not to think otherwise of him, approached Him with her message, kept in mind.
He looked at Him in open-mouthed wonder when he saw that even the rainy-season, the only representative of the dark, pervading the sky, expediting the masses of those gone abroad, moving laboriously on their ways to homes to keep the lives of their better-halves from falling off, and brought into being at once by him by means of black clouds, was at once brought to nothing by the Sage through the agency of His soul-power. On seeing the asse.nblage of fresh clouds, able to render the minds of travellers anxious for untying the hair, twisted into single unornamented braids and allowed to fall on their backs, of their beloved wives, by means of deep and charming thunders, dispersed though brought into being by himself, he thought that it was very difficult to agitate the Sage, possessing superhuman power manifested in Himself, possessing complete and flawless knowledge, having His mind concentrated upon salvation, and absorbed in deep thinking. He, the demi-god, thinking thus, excess