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"Henceforth, let it alone, effective in the business of killing, and nothing else be his wealth, like poison to a snake. So, I will crush him with my fist, even though he has the cakra, since he committed a crime by throwing the cakra at me who had a staff for a weapon." With these angry reflections, Sunanda's son raised his powerful fist and ran up, terrifying like Yama. The Lord of Takşaśilā went near Bharata, his hand doubled up, like an elephant with its trunk raised as a hammer. Suddenly he stopped, like the ocean at the earth as a boundary and, noble, thought to himself: “Shame on a brother's murder which I, as well as he, greedy for a kingdom, more wicked even than a hunter, have undertaken. When in the beginning brothers, brothers' sons, etc., are killed, who would seek a kingdom like a śākini-mantra ? 366 Contentment for men is not produced by the Sri of sovereignty, even though attained and enjoyed at will, like that of a drinker by wine. Even though being worshipped, the Śrī of sovereignty would avert her face, like a cruel divinity, if she had the least pretext. The Sri of sovereignty is very dark like the night before the new moon. For what other reason did my father abandon her like grass ? I, even though my father's son, understood her only after a long time, because of my bad conduct. How will another understand her ? By all means, she must be abandoned.” With this thought in his mind, noble Bāhubali said to the Cakravartin, “Bear patiently, O Lord of the World, that you were harassed by me in this way merely for a kingdom, like an enemy, o brother. Enough of sovereignty, brothers, sons, wives, etc., resembling a net in this great pool of existence. I shall become now a traveler on the road of my father, Master of the Three Worlds, sole dispenser of the gift of fearlessness to all."
866 731. The name of a mantra, which causes injury. A śākini is a kind of evil spirit. See Folklore of Gujarat, p. 115.
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