Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

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

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CHAPTER FOUR
transfixed, as if nailed by the unbearable arrows of Love; perspiring as if from the strong heat of the fire of separation; with affection sprouting on his body from horripilation, as it were; his voice broken, as if devoured by a planet, by her physical merits; his body trembling as if eager for her embrace; colorless from sorrow at not obtaining her; his eyes stolen by tears as if he were blind from love; resorting to fainting as if to bring death because of not winning her; what condition of love did Caņdaśāsana not attain when he had seen Nandā, fair in body and limbs, at that time?
He lived in the house provided by Samudradatta, but at night he did not sleep, his mind distracted, suffering from love like a disease. Meditating day after day on devices for obtaining Nandā, he passed the time, an enemy disguised as a friend.
One day, as Samudradatta was trustful, he abducted Nandā, like a kite seizing a necklace,161 and went away quickly. Unable to recover her, who had been abducted by a powerful and deceitful man like a Raksas, Samudradatta attained extreme disgust with existence. Suffering from the disgrace like an arrow in his heart, he took initiation under Muni Śreyānsa. He practiced very severe penance and made the nidāna, “As a result of this penance, may I kill Nandā's abductor.” He limited the fruit of his penance by that nidāna and, when he died according to destiny, became a god in Sahasrāra.
Birth of Candaśāsana as the Prativāsudeva Madhu (92-100)
In course of time Caņdaśāsana died and wandered in many birth-nuclei present in the whirlpool of the ocean of existence. He became the son, named Madhu, of King Vilāsa by his wife Guņavati in the city Pșthvi in this Bharata. With a life-period of thirty lacs of years, the
101 87. The depredations of kites and other similar birds constitute a positive nuisance in India.