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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(85) in the adjoining region, crowded with groves of trees, of his mansion, there is something else worthy of being described, whereby He would repose much more confidence in himself, not known to Him and that is a pleasure-hill on its bank, with its peak built with beautiful sapphires, worthy of being looked at owing to the golden plantain trees forming its hedge, śambara said that on seeing Him, with lightning emitting sudden transitory blaze in His sides, he remembered that very pleasure-hill, the abode of sexual enjoyment, possessing a form lofty like that of the Ratikar mountain, dark-blue, having a golden enclosure at its foot, dominating over his mind that day, with a tremulous heart, as it was a favourite of his beloved. He, therefore, with His fear dispelled by his words, having decided what would be beneficial to Himself, scaring away the crow settling upon a holy bathing place [ i. e. dispelling doubt from His holy and pure mind ), should have His mind firmly fixed upon his words. His beloved [i. e. Vasundharā ], built slenderly, youthful, having pointed teeth, possessing lower lips red like ripe Bimba fruit, was in that city; He would find her there. She, for the sake of whom both śambara and Pārśva had come into antagonism with each other in the former birth, sprung from a Kinnara family, then dwelt there. She, of a thin waist, having eyes resembling those of a frightened deer, possessing a deep navel, pining with love, remembering Him, a noble one, was found by him in tears. Brought into subjection by the god of love [i. e. subdued by passion ), she, with her speed slowed down owing to the wight of her buttocks, bent down a little owing to her breasts, was seen oft-times going away from the place where the moon-stone-slab was lying when her eye-sight was obstructed by tears gathered in her eyes at the time when she was engrossed in meditating upon Him represented in drawing with a desire to look at Him with His friend, upon a moon-stone-slab. Having gone there, she, the first-rate of the Creator's creations of young women in the whole