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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treasury. The prince's respective replies were : witnessing plays, enjoyment of sense-objects and the merit accumulated in the previous births.
Next, he called Jayamangala and posed before him the same questions. The prince replied that he passed his time in studying the secrets of practical politics, that royal wealth was means (o religious merit, and that the fruit of royal power was the well-being of the kingdom in acco. rdance with the established tenets of administrative policy. (The sub-story ends here).
(The story of king Ghanaväbana resumed)
The ministers requested King Ghanavābana to give his judgement in the matter, as the council of ministers was unable to agree among themselves about the true answers to the above-posed questions.
King Ghanavāhana saw through the game of the ministers and leaving their questions to themselves, he dismissed ther. The ministers, thus convinced of the king's incorrigibility ard his fondness for the actress, took the feudal lords into confidence, arrested the king and installed his son Tribhuvanamalla on the throne.
After some time Ghanavāhapa expressed a wish to go on pilgrimage, and after some dicussion between him and the ministers, he was allowed to go with some old horses and provisions for the journey. He went straightway to his one time enemy, who at first sigbt wanted to kill him, but on his ministers' advice, gave him a small army to help get back his kingdom. With this Ghanavāhana attacked Tribhuvanemalla, who kilied him in the battle. Ghanavābana was consigned to hell.
He was reborn as Dhanadeva, the son of the merchant Dhabivaba and his wife Dhanadevi. He inherited the fondness for beautiful female form. Once he was overpowered by passion for a daughter of a ropedancer and offered an equal weight of morey for her. But her father insisted on his joining their group. So Dhandeva became a rope-dancer and married her. Once he happened to see queen Kamalādevi of king Sudharman of Vijayapuri, ard was enamoured of ber. He deserted the troup of the rope-dancers, and set ap a shop of cosmetics. Gradually he came into contact with the queen and sent a message to her o fix a secret meeting. While the queen was reading his message, the king by chance happened to arrive there. He caught the queen guilty. The angry king ordered Dhanadeva 10 he arrested and executed As he was being taken