Madanrekha Akhyayika

SR No.: 002639
Original Sutra Author: Jinbhadrasuri
Author: Bechardas Doshi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1973
Total Pages: 304
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 15 MB

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misplaced and it was impossible for her to swerve from the self-chozen vow of fidelity and that it was really shameful for him that he had set out on the path of promiscuity. She further tried to cure him of the insatuation by a censure of passions. But the king's condition was pltiable. He could no longer check himself, although he realized the ineffectiveness of his mission, and returned home disappointed.
Madanarekha passed her days in the hope of Yugadahu's return from abroad and fearing that lest it might lead to a feud between him and the king, she decided not to tell the prince anything about the incident. However, a mortal fear of the king so much took possession of her that she could not be cheerful except in the presence of the prince.
Once during a night she saw the Full Moon in a dream and told the prince about it the next morning. The prince assured her that an extraordinary son would be born to her. During the course of her conception she expressed her longings, among others, to worship the idols of the Jinas and to proclaim the prohibition of the slaughter of any living being, and The prince complied with all her wishes.
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In due course, the Spring season fell in. At the repeated requests of his friends, the prince accompanied them, in company of Madanarekba, to the harem garden outside the city-walls to participate in their outdoor enjoyments. They enjoyed till it was late evening. As the Sun set, the prince entered a plantain bower with Madanarekha and enjoyed together to their heart's content.
FOURTH UCCHVĀSA:
As the Moon had not yet arisen, and the darkness engulfed everything, king Maniratha, started for the harem-garden, with an unsheated sword in his hand, in oreder to exploit the rare opportunity and do away with the prince once for all. Stumbling at every step in pitchy darkness on his way, when he reached the garden, he was challenged by the guards thinking that he might be some murderer. But he scolded them for allowing the prince to stay for the night in such an unfrequented place, reminded them of their responsibility lest something untoward might happen and asked them to show him to the prince. Thus he reached the plantain bower.
Seeing the king arrived, the prince rose up and fell to his feet. The moment when the prince was rising from his feet, the king swiftly dealt a blow of his sword on to the prince's head. The prince collapsed to the ground. When Madanarekha raised a cry of alarm, the armed guards rushed in for help. But the king excused himself for the accidental uninten