Night Mare is Over

Author(s): Gunratnasuri, Mokshratnavijay
Publisher: Adhyatma Shikshan Kendra

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unhappy mother! Verily I have obtained the fruit of accusin a Sati."
Prahlad stopped Ketumati from further weeping and his retinue set out in search of his son. He also sent Vidyadharas in different directions to search Anjana. After wandering and searching about here and there, the tired king at last reached Bhutvan-a dense and fearful forest.
13. REGAINED
In the quite atmosphere each word was pouring like hot lead in Prahlad's ears :
"O ! Van-devis ! I am the son of Vidyadharendra King Prahlad and his wife Ketumati. Mahasati Anjana is my wife. Wickedly I abandoned her, right from the time of our marriage, though she was quite innocent. Then I had to go for war. Fortunately knowing her to be faultless, I returned that very night and having given her my ring returned to the camp, without having made myself known to the elders. Thinking my wife to be guilty, the elders exiled he knows where she is ? I am the cause of her distressed state. Fie upon me! I have searched her far and wide but could not find her and unable to bear the unsurpassable grief, I am going to enter the fire. If you see my wife, please say to her, that your husband has reduced himself to ashes in your grief."
Pavananjaya had searched diligently but when he did not find Anjana he became depressed. His heart broke, recalling his previous cruel treatment towards innocent Anjana. Like a beggar he had wandered far and wide but had met with despair and defeat. Life became a burden for him. Death seemed sweeter to his troubled mind. So he made a funeral pyre and standing near it, he narrated his story to
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