Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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in a picture. “ Are these gods from Bahubali or Bharata ?" the soldiers reflected as they waited.
Saying "Fortunately for the people, the situation has not become hopeless,” the gods went first to the Cakrin. After giving their blessing with the words, “Hail ! Hail !” the gods spoke conciliatingly like ministers, with suitable speech, “Certainly you conquered the kings of six-part Bharatakşetra, O King, like Indra the demons. You have no rival in power and glory among kings, O lord of kings, like a śarabha among deer. Your desire for battle was not satisfied by them, like a desire for new butter by churning pitchers of water. Then you began this fight with your brother, your second half, like beating your own hand with your other hand. O King, certainly the itching of your arm, and nothing else, is the cause of this battle, just as the itching of an elephant's cheek is the cause of his rubbing against big trees. Verily, this arm-play of you two leads to the destruction of the worlds. For an encounter of rutting forest-elephants leads to the breaking down of the forest. Why was it undertaken to destroy everything merely for amusement, like a family of birds destroyed by a meat-eater for momentary pleasure ? Is this fitting for you who have attained birth from Rşabha, the protector of the world and ocean of compassion ? It is like a rain of fire from the moon.
Abstain, O King, from this terrible battle, like a person with self-control from worldly affections. Go to your own home. Because of you, your younger brother, Bāhubali, came. When you have gone, he will go. For action is from cause. Let both of you have good fortune from giving up the sin of the destruction of the universe; fet both armies have peace by abandoning the battle. Let the Indras of the Bhavanavasins, etc., living within the earth, be comfortable from the cessation of the earth's bending from the weight produced by your army. Let earth, mountains, oceans, subjects, animals, everywhere abandon agitation because of the cessation