Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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One man made a body-ornament for his sweetheart from jasmine flowers that he himself had gathered, which resembled a wreath of pearls. One filled his sweetheart's coil of hair with full-blown flowers with his own hand, like a quiver of the God of Love. One satisfied his beloved by giving a wreath, resembling the rainbow, woven by himself from five-colored flowers. One gracefully caught in his hands a ball of flowers thrown by his sweetheart, like a servant a gratuity. Gazelle-eyed maidens going to and fro from the motion of the swings kicked the tree-tops as if they were guilty husbands. One bride, seated in a swing, endured blows from creepers from her women friends who asked her husband's name, her mouth sealed from modesty.206 One man who was seated with a timid-eyed maiden opposite, swung the swing very hard from the desire for a close embrace with her. Young men engaged in the sport of swinging the swings on every branch looked like monkeys on the garden-trees.
Attainment of disgust with existence (1017-1040)
While the citizens were playing there in this way, the Master thought, "Is there such sport anywhere else ?" Then by clairvoyant knowledge the Master knew the very highest pleasure of heaven and that pleasure of Anuttaraheaven formerly enjoyed by himself. His bonds of delusion dropping away, again he reflected thus: “Alas! these people, overcome by sense-objects, do not know their own good. Ah! in this well of samsāra, jīvas from their karma perform actions that are nothing more than coming
206 1014. Orthodox Hindu women do not use their husbands' names--neither in addressing them nor in speaking of them. Among the Marāthas they may do so on one day in the year, during the Gaurīpājā. Gaurī, the wife of Siva, is worshipped during Caitra by all married women whose husbands are living. Different families perform the püjā on different days and invite their friends. On the day on which she performs the pūjā a woman may speak her husband's name.
Hindu Holidays, p. 18.