Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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Seated together, they looked like a tree and a creeper in one basin of water. Their hearts were always united by mutual love, as if bound by a firm chain. Enjoying himself with her, having the fragrance of unbroken love, he passed a long time like a moment.
Then Svayamprabha fell from heaven like a leaf from a tree. For when age-karma has expired, even Indra can not remain. Lalitanga swooned from grief at his wife's fall, as if he had been crushed by a mountain, or struck by a thunderbolt. When he had regained consciousness, he immediately began to wail again and again, making the palace Śriprabha wail with echoes. He did not find pleasure in a garden; he was not refreshed in a tank; he was not happy on a pleasure-mountain, and he did not delight in Nandana. Wailing, "Oh, my love, where are you? Where are you, my love?" he wandered everywhere, seeing everything as Svayamprabhā.
Now, Svayambuddha felt disgust with the world at his Master's death, took initiation under Sri Siddha Acārya, piously observed the vow for a long time without any transgressions, and became an Indrasāmānika, named Dṛdhadharma, in Aiśāna. Inclined to affection like a kinsman because of their relations in the previous birth, and wise, he spoke to console Lalitanga. "Why are you bewildered on account of a mere woman, O noble sir? Wise men do not reach such a state even at death." Lalitanga replied: "Friend, what are you saying? For death is easy to bear, but separation from a wife is very hard to bear. A gazelle-eyed woman is the only thing of value in the world; without whom all wealth, even such, is valueless."
Afflicted by his grief, the Sāmānika god of Isana, having employed concentrated attention, knew (the facts) from clairvoyant knowledge, and said: "Do not be downcast, noble sir. Be at ease now. I have found your
wife as I searched for her. In the continent Dhātakikhaṇḍa, in the East Videhas in the village Nandi, there