Dhurtakhyana in the Nisithacurni

SR No.: 250075
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Z_Vijay_Vallabh_suri_Smarak_Granth_012060.pdf
Publication Year: 1956
Total Pages: 9
Language: English
Classification: Article & Ceremon
File Size: 675 KB

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144 ACARYA VIJAYAVALLABHASŪRI COMEMMORATION VOLUME
as their pupils, of their own sex. Once during the rains, it was pouring down for a week; oppressed by hunger these rogues wondered who would give them food. Müladeva said: 'Let every one narrate his experience or information; one who does not believe it should give a feast to all, but one who confirms it with parallels from the Bhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa and other scriptures is not to give anything.' All of them said, 'Very well.'
Elāsādha narrated this incident: 'When I went to the forest with cows, I saw some robbers coming. I packed the cows in my blanket, and returned to my village with that luggage to witness the sports of villagers. The robbers rushed in there. The entire village, all men and animals, entered a cucumber. The robbers went away. A goat swallowed that cucumber; a boa gulped that goat; a crane picked up that boa and perched on a Vata tree, with one of its legs dangling down. An elephant from the king's military camp was tied to it. The crane started flying; the elephant was pulled up; there was a hue and cry; and consequently skilled archers shot the crane down. Its body was vivisected at king's orders; the boa, the goat, the cucumber were taken one from inside the other. The whole village came out of the cucumber along with myself and my cows. They all went to their respective places and I came here. Now tell me whether this is true.' When they said that this is all true, Elāsādha asked, 'How can a blanket contain all the cows, and a cucumber, the village?' Others added that in the Bharata it is said that the whole universe was under one ocean; there was an Egg in the waters, and the entire universe was contained in that egg; if so, why could not your cows be contained in the blanket, and why could not the village be contained in a cucumber. Secondly, the entire universe was in Vişnu's stomach; he was in Devaki's womb; and she lay on her bed; similarly, the cucumber, goat, boa and crane could each be contained in the belly of the next.
Sasaka started narrating: 'After ploughing the field, sesamum seeds were sown during winter, and they grew into big trees. When a wild elephant pursued me, I climbed a sesamum tree. It shook the tree and rushed round, showering the seeds and crushing them under its feet. There was a stream of oil and lot of mud in which the animal got stuck and died. I prepared a bag from its skin and filled it with oil. I ate a load of sesamum cakes and drank pots of oil. Putting that bag on the branch of a tree, I reached home; my son pulled the tree and took the bag. This is my experience : one who does not accept it should give the feast.' Others added thus :