Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

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

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CHAPTER ONE
hundred bows tall, with a life term of thirty-three sāgaras, saw the result of his acts. Triprstha passed twenty-five thousand years as prince, an equal number as king, one thousand years in the expedition of conquest, and eightythree lacs plus forty-nine thousand years as Ardhacakrin. So the term of his life was eighty-four lacs of years. Then Acala was overcome at orice by grief arising from his brother's death, like the sun by Rāhu.81 Halāyudha gave loud lamentations, like an undiscerning person though he was discerning, pitifully, because of the power of his affection for his brother:
"Rise, brother! Why this persistence in lying down! Why is there now this unprecedented slowness on the part of you, the man-lion ? All the kings are at the door eager to see you. This ungraciousness to these miserable from not seeing you is unsuitable. Even in sport silence for so long is not suitable for you, brother. My heart is parched without the nectar of your voice. Sleep and contempt for me were never present in you always energetic and always devoted to your elders. Oh! I am killed by this cruel conduct! What has happened to me?” With these outcries Musalin fell to the ground in a swoon. Lăngalin regained consciousness in a moment, got up, and took Hari on his lap, crying aloud, “Oh! brother, brother!" Enlightened by the elders, he became resolute instantly and had the funeral rites of his younger brother performed.
: :. Acala's death (899-908)
After he had held the funeral, Bala frequently shed tears, like a cloud in Śrāvaņa,82 at recalling his brother. Balabhadra did not at any time take pleasure in a garden, as if it were a great forest, nor in a house, as if it were a cemetery, nor in pleasure-pools nor rivers, as if they were house-drains, nor in gatherings of relatives, as if they were
81 890. See I, n. 410. 82 899. A month in the rainy season.