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there is danger from the enemies. How can we leave Pātālalanka. Lankā which belonged to us since Toyadavāhana, was usurped from me.' Thereupon flaring up Mālin said: "With our kingdom lost, how can we live even for a moment? (11). One should be satisfied only when whatever he has or does is of the highest order. I take a vow to triumphantly enter Lankā tomorrow' (12). The march was ordered in the morning. With a tumultous uproar Lankä was besieged. Nirghāta, the governor of Lankā, confronted Malin in the battle (13). In that formidable encounter Mālin killed Nirghāta with a sword, Sukeśa, Mālin, Sumälin and Mālyavat entered Lankā and paid their homage at the shrine of Sānti-Jina (14).
VIII Sandhi. Malin's battle with Indra: Malin's fall.
Mālin's sway spread over all the Vidyadhara states. At that time in the Rathanūpura city on the Southern Range, Indra, the son of Sahasrāra and Mānasasundari established all his retinue and paraphernalia in a thorough imitation of the insignia of the celestial Indra, declaring himself to be the terrestrial Indra (1). As Mālin's feudatories left him and joined Indra, he ordered a march against the latter. Seeing ill-omens when they were setting out, Sumälin grasped Malin's hand and drew his attention to them (2). Mālin replied that only one's fate and steadfastness were all-powerful and not the omens. And they started on their march (3). The kings on both the Ranges took refuge with Indra. Mālin's messengers asked Indra to pay tributes and avert the struggle with Mālin, the invincible, whereupon Indra said in rage: 'You are left alive because you are a messenger. Who is that king of Lankā and what is this talk of treaty? He among us who survives will become the sole lord of the earth' (4).
The messengers returned. All the generals and warriors on Indra's side got armed (5). Description of the battle (6). Fight between Mālin and Indra in which ultimately Malin's head was severed by Indra with the discus (7-9). Thereupon seeing the Monkey and Demon forces fleeing in stampede, somebody suggested to Indra to pursue them, when Saśin requested to entrust that task to him. Being permitted he ran shouting after the escaping enemies. But Mālyavat confronted him and ridiculing him as an empty braggart struck him with a javelin. Saśin swooned and when he recovered, the enemies had cleared away (10-11). Indra entered Rathanüpura in great triumph and fell at the feet of Sahasrara. He put Lanka in Dhanada's charge and Kişku in that of Yama and honoured others also with the gift of territory (12).
IX Sandhi. Birth of Rāvana, Bhanuka rņa, Vibhisa na:
They acquire Vidyās Long after this Sumálin in Pātālalankā got a son Ratnāśrava, who, when grown up, went to Puspavana for mastering Vidyās (magic charms). At this juncture there arrived Vyomabindu, who seeing Ratnāśrava there as was forecast by his Guru, told his daughter Kaikasi that that person was destined to be her husband. Stationing her there, he retired to his hermitage. Here Ratnāśrava
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