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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Between her and Gambarā's young lady there existed a relation of inseparable friendship; he therefrom had come to know that, in his house, she had been involved in distress; he had been a right resident in that house. He addressed the sage that by means of those distinctive marks committed to memory, and on seeing the figures of Samkha and Padma represented by drawing lines on the sides of the door, He would find out his house. Under the then cirumstances, Sambara thought that his house would not surely have maintained its charm on account of his separation, as his wife by that time would have been engrossed in getting rid of her tresses and his servants even, very slow in doing their jobs, would have been abstaining from speech, and the lotuses there would not have continued to possess their beauty after the sunset as they did before the sunset. Believing in his words, He, having quickly assumed a form like that of a cub of an elephant for the sake of moving rapidly, seated on the aforesaid pleasure-mountain with a beautiful peak ( or with a peak serving as a pleasure-abode ), should have a look, in that garden, at that beloved one, invloved in mental anguish with reference to Him, overwhelmed with grief provoked by separation from Him. If she would not be found there. she. reduced to that would be dwelling in the inner aparment of the house standing in the interior part of the garden. To see her, who was longed for, secretly, it would deserve Him to let His glance in the form of the flash of lightning, possessing very scanty brilliance, bearing resemblance to the gleaming of a row of fire-flies, enter the house. Sambara said that she, engaged in worshipping, on having attained to the idols of Gods taking vows, prescribed by the codes compiled by sages, for the sake of attaining Him or portraying a resemblance of Sambara found in Him, manifesting emaciation caused by separation from her, conceived by fancy, familiar to her long since, impressed on her mind, and known formerly or drawing a likeness of Him afterwards, and looking