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13. on that day, oh friend, he would become a tender-bodied, handsome man again". Ob handsome one, this is what she told me. Knowing this, I took my residence in the forest". Hearing this, as I stood there, Lilavati arrived there. She held in her hand a portrait which infatuated the minds of on-lookers. I readily inquired of her "For what purpose have you come here?" Then she told me Listen, oh great hero dear to all people, good looking and firm like Mere! On the southern side of Sindhu in Vijayardha where blows the wind excellently fragrant on account of the Suras and the Khecaras, there is the town of Kanakapura a mine of jewels and delightful to the eyes. There rules king Hamsaratha served by hosts of Vidyadkaras. He is accompanie 1 by Vimaladevī as a charming swan is by a female swan.
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14. He has brought, by abduction, some woman who has no liking for him. She lives in his palace observing religion, a basket of love and delightful to the eyes. She would not talk to any body. With concentrated mind, she drew the picture of her husband. While she was feeling happy in her mind looking at it, the good Khecari Vegavati arrived there. Madana-manjusū was questioned by her "Who has been drawn by you in this picture? Tell me, oh mother Is he a Khecara, a Kinnara, a god or a man, or is he Cupid with his shaft fixed to the bowstring?" To Vegavati she told the truth" He is Naravahana my beloved husband." When she looked at it taking the portrait, she fell to the ground shaking her body. 10 Knowing her to be Vegavati, Kanakavati cracked a joke with her She did not use to like any suitor but has now fallen to the earth at the mere sight of a figure.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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