Nayadhamma Kahao

SR No.: 034981
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N V Vaidya
Publisher: N V Vaidya
Total Pages: 174
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 15 MB

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Padmanabha, produced this conch-sound ... resembling the sound of your own conch,...very agreeable...etc." Then Kapila Vasudeva bowed down to and saluted Munisuvrata, and said to him :-"O Revered Sir, I shall go and see the Eminent Kșşpa Vāsudeva, my peer". Then the sage Munisuvrata said to Kapila :-" OB., it is not done...(i.e. it is not the custom), [P.46] that the Arhats, the Sovereign monarchs, the Baladevas, or the Vasudevas, should go and meet the Arhats, the Sovereign monarchs, the Baladevas, and the Vasudevas. All the same, you will see the white and yellow banner-tips of Krsna Vasudeve, while he would be going through the Lavaņa sea”. Then Kapila Vasudeva bowed down to, and saluted Munisuvrata, mounted on an elephant, and speedily and hastily went towards the seacoast, and on seeing the white and yellow banner-tips of Krşņa Vāsudeva as he was passing through the Lavana sea, he said :-"Here is this Eminent Krşņa Vāsudeva, my peer, passing through the Lavana sea;”—and with these words, he took his conch and blew it. Then Krşpa heard the sound of the conch of Kapila Vasudeva, took his Pancajanya (conch), ... and blew it. Then both of those Vasudevas exchanged greetings by blowing their conches. Then Kapila Vasudeva went to Aparakamkā, and on seeing it all destroyed...and razed to the ground ... asked Padmanābha :"O B., how is it, that this city is thus destroyed...and ruined "? Then Padmanābha replied to Kapila Vasudeva :"Thus, My Lord, Krşya Vasudeva came here from Jambūdvīpa, and having defied (lit, overpowered) you, devastated this city". Then Kapila Vasudeva, on hearing these words of Padmanabha, said to him :--"Oh you Padmanabha ! You, who court something never desired by meni.e. you, who sought self-destruction,-you should have known better when you offended the Eminent Kșşņa Vāsudeva, my peer", and with great rage, he ordered Padmanābha to leave the kingdom, crowned his son as king of the capital Aparakamkā with great pomp and ceremony,... and went back.
[46.131] Then Krşņa crossed the Lavaņa sea, and said to the five Pandavas ;-"Go you, O B., and cross the great river Ganges while I shall go and see Susthita, Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat