Atimukta and Arjun Malakar Diwakar Chitrakatha 059

Author(s): Virendramuni, Sanjay Surana
Publisher: Mahavir Seva Trust Mumbai

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Arjuna malakar He sat at his fixed place along the highway to In the evening Arjuna returned home sell flowers. His flowers were famous throughout and told his wife Bandhumatithe city and everyone praised them
Listen, tomorrow there All right, beloved !
will be more demand of Vow ! How beautiful Y Arjuna ! Tomorrow there
flowers, so we will go to flowers ! How sweet, is a festival in the city, so
the garden before dawn fragrance ! I require more flowers.
to pluck flowers.
All right, will bring more.
Next day they got up early and left to collect flowers.
In the town lived a group of six friends, popularly called Gaushtak Mandali. The king had granted them amnesty and the group became rowdy and wild. By chance next morning when the group was enjoying in the garden the members saw Arjuna and Bandhumati. One of them said -
Move ! Let's hide behind the door of the temple. As soon as they walk in we will grab them.
Come let us tie the gardener and enjoy his
wife.
Look ! How beautiful is the
wife of the gardener ?
They hatched the plan and hid behind the door.
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