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anklets, bells and a girdle. She held over her head the fivefold hood of a serpent and looked joyful and pure excercising a mysterious influence. Placing her lotus-like feet on the ground, speaking something in charming speech, shedding lustre in all directions and wearing on her bosom a pearl necklace, the virtuous goddess stood in front of Rativega in an instant saying "I grant you a boon. Ask for what may be in your heart, oh lady of slender belly! For your sake I have descended upon the earth."
14. When she saw the lotus-face of the goddess, Rativega began to shed tears. "Oh worshipful goddess, all the dirt of my sins has vanished at your sight. Whoever spontaneously belauds you, does not experience a succession of woes. Whoever thinks of your face day after day, him you serve as a boat, oh goddess Have mercy upon me helpless. Save me from falling in the ocean of calamity. I do not ask for anything, oh goddess! I only implore you for one boon. If you really confer a boon on me, oh goddess, reply to one question of mine. My husband has gone into the ocean; is he alive or is he dead?" Then the goddess of the gods says "Your husband who fell from the boat, occupied, the very moment, the heart of Kanakaprabha the daughter of a Vidyadhara.
16. Your husband has performed great feats. Who can describe them, oh sister? He married Anangalekha the very streak of the bowman Cupid. Then he married sportively Chandralekha the veritable sister of Cupid, of divine body. He also married Kusumāvali of agreeable
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15. Under the influence of infatuation, he was instantly taken to Tilakadvipa by that Kanakaprabha. She showed him to her father "See, father, I have obtained this divine-eyed one in the sea. He has been ordained to be my lord by the sages, even as Lakshmi obtained god Visnu". Knowing her love the Vidyadhara married her with festivities. Then one day, Karakanda killed, in a moment, an enemy of his father-inlaw. A gentle man who eats the food of another, does a good turn to him. What wonder is here indeed? Whoever killed the enemy of Kanakaprabha shall become our master, what else!'. Thinking so, his service was immediately accepted by the Vidyadharas with a show of respect. Loyally 10 folding their pair of hands and bending the head they followed him carefully. No Vidyadhara was there who did not hold his service.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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