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SRI MUNISUVRATANATHACARITRA
Incarnation as Suvrata (12-247) Origin of the Harivansa (12-110)
After falling from there he became an Arhat in the Harivansa. Hence the origin of the line is told first. It is as follows: In the zone Bharata of Jambudvipa there is the city Kauśāmbi, ornament of the country Vatsa. Its king was Sumukha, by whose glories like fragrant sandalpaste the face of the heavens was adorned. His command was not to be transgressed by kings, like a jungle by serpents, and his power became unique like that of Vajrapāņi. He was conciliating those suitable for conciliation like a tender-hearted father, bestowing gifts on those to be won by gifts, like a sorcerer on spirits, making a division among the crafty, like a loadstone in iron, carrying a staff for the guilty, like another Daṇḍapāņi (Yama).00
One day when the spring season, a kinsman of Love, had arrived, the king started for the garden, eager for sport. As he went along on his elephant, he saw the lotuseyed wife, Vanamālā, of the weaver, Vira. Seeing her with swelling, high breasts, with arms soft as lotus-fibres, with a waist small as a thunderbolt, with hips like a broad sandy beach, with a navel deep as the whirlpool in a river, with thighs like an elephant's trunk, with hands and feet reddish like a young red lotus, with arched brows, holding with her left hand the garment falling from her hips and with her right hand the upper garment falling from her breasts, the king was instantly distracted by love and, slowing his elephant's gait, reflected:
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"Is she an Apsaras fallen from the sky because of some one's curse, or is she a forest-Lakṣmi herself, or the Śri of spring herself, or Rati separated from Smara, or a Nagamaiden come to earth, or a jewel of a woman made by the Creator from curiosity?"
60 16. The 4 upayas. See Abhi. 3. 400.
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