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1. In Hastinapura City, there lived a prince named Śūra, who was endowed with diverse Jewels of virtues. His wife named Ganga was adorned with moral virtues and (she) was the most fortunate (woman). Their daughter was named Sumati. Because of the domination of karmic fruitions, she was given to different (prospective) bridegrooms by the father, the mother, the brother and the maternal uncle.
Exercise 41 Whose Wife is this?
2. All those four bridegrooms reached (her) place at the same day and started quarrelling with one another. Seeing the destruction of many persons in the emerging unbalanced discord among them, the girl Sumati entered the fire and one bridegroom also entered (the fire) on account of the intense love for her. The other (second) went to cast the bones in the flow of the Ganges. Having cast the ashes of the pyre there in water, the other (third) wandered on the earth; having been seized by the great planets of attachment on account of the grief, the fourth stayed there and protecting that place and renouncing one morsel of food daily he passed time.
3. Having got the food cooked in the kitchen in a certain village, now the third person wandering on the earth sat for partaking of food. For him the mistress of the house served food. Then her younger son wept very much. Then she went under the dominance of anger. (As a result of which) the son was thrown into the fire by her, Partaking of food, he
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