Lilavati Sara

SR No.: 002651
Original Sutra Author: Jinratnasuri
Author: H C Bhayani, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1983
Total Pages: 514
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 19 MB

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Introduction
the pleasures of the sense of smell. He said that addiction to the pleasant smells deludes men and makes them yearn for foods, scented wines and ointments. All these cannot be had without money, which in its turn could not be acquired without sinful activities, which generate attachmont and hatred and lead one ultimately to hell. He pointed out the merchant Purandara, who was seated in the assembly, as an instance and narrated his past births as follows (1-16):
The Story of Arisimha (17-227)
In the city of Vijayapuri ruled king Aris mha with his queen Padmaśrı. He was very fond of perfumes and fragrant things. In a Svayamvara ho got Kamalāyatı as his another wife, who became his new favourite. Jealous Padmasari consulted experts in witch-craft for doing away with Kamalavatı and getting the king under her own control. She got some magic powder from a nun. She mixed it with a perfume. When the king smelt it, he lost his mind and turned mad. The ministers coufiped him in a wooden cage, but he could not be cured with the help of physicians and witchdoctors. So they crowned his son Arikesarin in his place. Padmsri fleld to her father's house. Arisimha once escaped from the cage. Roaming here and there, he reached the city of Kşitipratistha. The hostile king Vijayarājs was tempted to ill-treat him. But afraid of retaliation from Arikesarin, ho treated him well and helped him to leave for another country. Arisimba reached Khetapura, where he was recognised by an actor that was formerly favoured by him. Out of gratefulness, the actor brought him to his house, arranged for medical treatment, and got bim cured, To prepare the ground for reestablishing Arisimha as the king, the actor took his troupe to Vijayapuri. He tried through clever devices to persuade Arikesarin, former ministers and the feudal lords. But the ministers compelled him to flee, Next the physician-cum-occultist Dhanvantari, who had cuied the king wont to Vijayapuri with the same mission. He offerred his services to the king. But he was suspected to be an ally of Arisimha. The chief-priest laid a very clever trap and skilfully discovered Dhanvantari's true intentions, eventhough the latter was very cautious. Dhanvantari was arrested and presented before the king, who extracted the truth from him and dismissed him from the kingdom.
Thereafter in collaboration with the actor aud the physician Arisimba manufactured a lot of gold through alchemic processes, and organized an army. He marched against Arikesarin in the fight that ensued the father was killed at the hands of the son. He was consigned to hell.