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THE DVATÅSHARAYA:
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Afterwards as Mularâja and others, in the drapur exhibited your portrait to this princess, desire of paradise, went to perform penances, who, when she sawit, agreed to marry you. When in like manner Bhima too said to Kshemaraja : she sees birds flying from this direction, she asks “Do you manage the kingdom, and I will go them if they are come from Raja Karna : she to perform penances." Kshemaraja refused, refuses to eat or drink, and because her desire saying, "I will not separate from you, but will to marry you is not speedily gratified she is myself accompany you to do penance." Then grieved. For this reason the maiden has sent Bhima and Kshemarâja together seated Karna me privately to your presence. She has sworn on the throne, and Bhima went to Svarga that she will have no other bridegroom, and (A.D. 1073).
Jayakesi Raja also has authorized my coming." Afflicted at his separation from Bhima, Kshe- Having thus spoken, the painter presented the maraja retired to a pure place called Mundi gifts of gold, jewels, &c. which Jayakesi had kes vara, near the village of Da histhala, sent. Karna received them, and great eageron the banks of the Sarasvati, and there per- ness to marry this damsel arose in his mind. formed penances. Then Karna Raja gave this The painter said, moreover, that his Raja village of Dadhisthala to the Kunvarji Deva- Jayakesi, knowing Karna to be a great Mahaprasada, that he might attend upon Kshemaraja raja, had sent an elephant as a present, which in his penances there.
he prayed might be accepted. Karna agreed . Karna Raja too, making mullegiri, kept all and asked where the elephant was: he was told råjas nnder his subjection. Once a chobdár it was in the garden. He went out privately informed Karna Raja that a portrait-painter to see it, and after having examined it, went on who had travelled in many countries had arrived, into the garden, where he saw a very beautiful and stood at the door, waiting permission to woman. He considered whether this was not the appear in his presence. On the raja's order the same whose portrait he had seen in the roll. The painter entered the court and sat down, making Raja asked her attendant who the lady was. obeisance, and said: "O Råja, your fame has She answered that her father's race was called travelled into many countries, therefore many Kada mba, and that she was the princess the people think of you and are desirous of seeing daughter of Jayakesi, Raja of the Dekhan, who you. I too have been for long so desirous." had come thither with the desire of marrying Then the painter exhibited to the king a roll him,-having taken an oath that if otherwise, with paintings on it. There Lakshmi was she would burn herself. Karņa said he would represented dancing before the râja, and there marry the lady and make her his Pat Rani. was painted a maiden much more beautiful than They went into the city, and the marriage was Lakshmi. When the râja saw it he praised the performed according to the usual custom. The maiden's beauty exceedingly. He inquired of person of the bride was stained with kanku; what race the maid was, and the painter salt was waved over the heads of bride and angwered: “There is in the Dekhan a city bridegroom and cast away. named Chandrapur; the king thereof is
The Tenth Sarga. Ja ya kesi:* this maid is his daughter the Thus the Raja married May âņallad evi, princess May âņalla devi, in the bloom of and bestowed great honour upon her. Afteryouth. Many princes wish to wed her, but she wards Karna Raja, having no son, was accepts of none. Her attendant told her that the very sad, and he used to go to the temple of flower of her age was passing away, and that Lakshmi and there pray for a son. The Guru she should accept a husband : then the maid taught him a mantra of Lakshmi's, which he began to worship Gauri, to obtain a bridegroom continued repeating, refraining from food and full of qualities. The Bauddha Jatis too, that drink and women, and sleeping on the ground shave the hair of their heads and their beards, and performing all this observance privately, having painted portraits of many royal unknown to any. He also offered homa of tila princes, showed them to the princess. After- and ghí, &c., to Lakshmi, and worshipped her, wards some unskilled painter who came to Chan- presenting balidan, the lotus, &c., also keeping
. Ind. Ant. vol. I. pp. 156, 320; vol. III. p. 194.
