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also similarly employed, the irritable old Rishi Râmapratap was easily caught. But Sahajanand Darvâsa approached them. The god was ab- completely outran his uncle. Having run, it is sorbed in the contemplation of the invisible said, twelve kos, he turned round and said to Brahm--and the sishis in that of his visible repre- his pursuer, 'Are you so stupid as not to undersentative before them; so that no one noticed the stand that it is not my fate to return to the approach of Durvâsa, who was thus indignant world ?' From that day the boy attached himat their total want of civility and vented his self to a guru from whom he learned the princirage in a qurse upon Nårêyaņa, saying, “For ples and practices of religion. I your disrespectful treatment of me you shall His parents dying when he was eleven years become incarnate in the Kaliyuga."--Then, old, Ghanaśyam, according to the Bhakt Chintáturning to the Rishis, he said, " you also shall mani, at the age of twelve, started to perform pilbecome men at the same period." The god not grimages, and having visited Badrikedar, Kâsi, only acquiesced in the sentence, but received it Calcutta, Jagannath, and travelled thence through with joy, observing that he had long been desir- Southern India to Râmesvar, he retired into ons of becoming incarnate at that time for the a forest where he devoted himself with undivided salvation of sinful mortals. The Rishis also attention to the worship of the Sun. Sürya was rejoiced that they would have the opportunity of accordingly greatly pleased and blessed him saybecoming the worshippers of Narayana among ing, " Whatever you undertake you will succeed men. In consequence of this curse, Sahajanand in." He travelled about from place to place appeared, on avatára of Narayana. Sahajanandas & Brahmachari calling himself Nilakantha or Narayan Swami was born at Chupiya, a Brahmachari. “He wore nothing on his head small town 8 miles north from Ayodhya (Oudh) on but his matted hair, and nothing on his body but the 9th Chaitra buddha S. 1837 (A.D. 1780). his kaupin; he carried with him the hide of a According to the Bhakt Chintamani of Nishkul- deer, and a book. The Bhagawat Gîtê he knew anand a Sådhu of the sect, his father's name was by heart; as also the thousand names of Vishnu. Hariprasad and his mother's Bâlâ, but another He also carried the things required in Shalaaccount gives their names of his parents 28 grâm worship, a staff of palas wood and an earthen Dharmadeva and Premavati," but the people waterpot." In the round of his pilgrimages called his mother Bhakti." He was named to sacred places tirthas) he came to AhmadGhanakyâm, and belonged to the Sarvaiya class abad, and after a while travelled through Kathiêof Brahmans and the Savarni gotra, and was a wâd, visiting the shrine of Bhimanáth Siva, and student of the Kautumi Shâkhâu of the Sama proceeding by way of Gopankth to the port Veda. He was the second of three brothers, of Mangrol. In the year 8. 1856 (A. D. 1799),. the elder, called Râmapratap, was three years being 19 years of age, he arrived in the attire of older, and the younger' was named Ich harâma. a tapasvi at the village of Loj or Griloz, near JunaWhen Ghanaśyam, according to another account gadh, where lived about fifty sádhus of the sect of named Hariksishņaji, was a year old, his parents Ramanand, the chief among whom was Muktanand, removed to the town of Ayodhyâ.
and with him Nilakantha formed a friendship and Bahajanand and Ramapratâp were both invested soon became a convert to the doctrines of his with jánve on the same day-the former hay- sect, Muktônand then wrote to his Gara, ing attained the age of eight years. Ac- Ramanand, who was at Bhuj in Kachh, and he cording to custom, both the boys were on returned to Loj and gave Upadesha to Nilakanthat occasion, ordered to run off, to intimate tha on the 11th Kartik buddha 8. 1857 (A.D. their unwillingness to enter the world, and their 1800) and changed his name to Sahajanand desire to devote themselves wholly to religious Swami. Thereupon, at the age of about twenty observances; and their maternal uncle, whose years, Sahajanand began to propagate his tenets duty it was to bring them back and compel them and preach the doctrines of his sect. He affected to enter the world, started off after them. also miraculous powers before his disciples, en
Throughout the whole range of literature the curse of the three worlds Add Sakrs lost their vigour, all vegetable Durviss is always at hand to account for every mishap prodacts withered and died; this led to the war between or minadventure. He is represented as the son of Atri the DADAVAS and the gods and finally ended in the charning And Anusy, under the special influence of S'IVA, or as 1 of the ocean. In the drama Durviss is represented a care
portion of Siva. He is figured as sitting in fire ing Sakuntale for a slight delay in opening her door to stretching his arms opwards. He cursed Indra for having him, which led to her sorrow and disgrace, disrespectfully treated garlaud of celestial flowers which t Daydnodaya, Vol. VIII. p. 277. he had given him; in consequence of which thenceforward! Drydnodaja, Vol. VIII. p. 281.
