Kansvaho

SR No.: 001886
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rama Paniwada, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 266
Language: Prakrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Story, & Literature
File Size: 11 MB

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16. The word toa stands for both Toy and stá as shown in the translation.
17. There is pun on the word ATSIT. UT rescues people who are bound by ATSIT ( EATO), but he himself is bound to a mortar by AT39T (=HTC or Arą). Note #TBTT is Inst. sg. from AT39F=AFQ. Shoot was ever mischevous. Once he broke the pot of curds which enraged his mother quiet who consequently tied him down to a mortar. After a good deal of effort she could manage to get a sufficiently long rope to fasten round his body ( 1To 10.99 14 etc.)
18. By way of revenge परशुराम destroyed कार्तवीर्य-अर्जुन who. was known as Haare and who, according to another tradition, had thousand arms. The back-ground of the event of acu's breaking a pair of 377 trees is like this. Two pegs, foot and Afruita, were once sporting with ladies in the river Ganges. They were excessively drunk and completely nude. Tog was passing by that way. At the sight of the sage are the ladies clothed themselves, but the two brothers were too drunk to mind their nudity. Arcę was offended by their behaviour, felt that they did not deserve to be men, and cursed them that they might be turned into trees for a period of one hundred years. They would be relieved, however, by the contact of entor. For his mischief, we have seen above, tot was tied to a mortar, but divine as his. power was, he pulled the mortar through the interspace between the pair of 37ga trees (viz., the two 9875 converted into trees) in the veranda. His pull was so forcible that both the trees were uprooted; and consequently the 70s were released from the form of trees. Cf FIFTTT30 xiv. 80 with this verse.
19. are was a demon in the service of Once he assumed the form of a crane and tried to swallow uso who was