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Sotue Important Episodes
Subhoma Cakravartins as well as the Jain Rāmāyana's are inserted here. There are other additions and discrepancies as well 28 In the following lanibha, the second Vegaratılanhha, the account of king Jarasandha has been added, who has Vasudeva kidnapped to try to advert a threatening prophesy concerning him The hero is put into a leather bag and dropped from the ridge of a mountain, whence Vegavati eventually finds and rescues him This episode is not fourd in any of the other versions at all
It seems that the origipal account of Vegavati las not only been padded in the VH, but highly distorted us will, much as the single character of Madanamaŭjuhā was spli iniw the two of Subirannā and Somasiri Although nothing is mentioned about Vegavati when Vasudeva is abducted by Mānasavega in the beginning of the Mayan piegālambha, in all the other versions Vegavati becomes infuriated and wildly defends her husband by engaging in outright co nbat with her own brother Curiously enough this important episode is totally left out here in the VH, and instead the very same scene appears in a totally different context in the Samalilamblu The situation is such . Once when Vasudeva has been sleeping with his wife Sāmalī, he realizes all of a sudden that someone with a face very similar to Sāmali's is carrying him away. He guesses his abdu ctor must be Angāraka, Sāmali's brother Angåraka boasts that Vasudeva cannot do a thing to defend himself, since he lacks the nacessary magic power But then Sāmali herself appears on the scene, declaring to her brother "If you do not leave my husdand alone I shall be obliged to abandon my relations of a kinsman to you" Angāraka takes the challenge and
22 Compare the story of Rāmāyaṇa narrated by Vegavati to Nara
vāhanadatta, KSS 107 12-26 23 For instance, the three lambhas of the VH narrating the marriage
accounts of Mayanavega, Vegavali and Balacanda have been summarized in the 26th sarga of the Harivamsapurana of Jinasena (JHP Madanavega's account in 1-25, Vegavati's account in 26 46, and Balacándra's account in 47-56 Again this shows some disarrangement of the original narration.
