Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

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

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CHAPTER TWO
Yaksa-lord sent his girls to make a pleasant attack as an obstacle to their subduing the vidyās. The girls came to disturb them, but they themselves were disturbed by their very fair forms, the instructions of their master forgotten. Seeing their resolute figures, unchanged, silent, they spoke, helpless from the absorption in genuine love. . "Sirsi sirs! you are dull from meditation. Look carefully in front of you. Goddesses have become submissive to you. What accomplishment of yours is superior to that? Why this effort to subdue vidyās? Enough of that trouble. What will you do with vidyās? For we, goddesses, are subdued by you. Sport with us at will like gods in different charming spots of the three worlds, as you like."
Talking lovingly in this way to them possessing much firmness, the Yaksa-girls became embarrassed. For one can not clap with one hand. Then the Yakşa, lord of Jambūdvipa, said to them (the brothers): "What bad conduct is this that you, foolish, have undertaken? I think you have been taught a heresy by some untrustworthy wicked heretic, for the sake of death suddenly. Go, go now, leaving this wicked persistence in meditation. Speak! I, compassionate, shall grant your desire."
Angry, he said to them who were silent after these remarks, "On whom else do you meditate, ignoring me, a god before your eyes?"
The Yakşa, whose speech was cruel, instructed his servants, who were within the forest, by raising his eye-brow, in regard to molesting them. Then, crying, "Kilal kila!” assuming many forms, some rooted up mountain-peaks and threw them in front of them. Some became serpents and twined around them like sandal trees; some became lions and gave terrible roars in front of them. In the bodies of bears, wolves, tigers, cats, et cetera they performed terrifying acts; but they were not shaken, nevertheless. They created. Kaikasi, Ratnaśravas, and their sister, Candraņakhā, bound them, and threw them before them quickly.