Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

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

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RĀVAŅA'S EXPEDITION OF CONQUEST 149 Mahäkāla, lord of sixty thousand. Then he knew by clairvoyance Sagara's scheme which was the cause of his own humiliation in Sulasā's svayamvara. The Asura said, 'I will kill King Sagara and other kings also,' and, as he was looking for opportunities, he saw Parvata at the river Suktimati. Then he assumed the dress of a Brāhman and said to Parvata, 'I am a friend of your father, named Sāņdilya, noble sir. Formerly, Kșīrakadamba and I together studied with the wise teacher Gautama. Hearing that you had been injured by Nārada and the people, I came. I shall make your side successful, bewildering every one by charms.
· Together with Parvata the Asura bewildered the whole people by means of wicked practices to make them fall into an evil state of existence. He produced afflictions, such as diseases, bhūts, et cetera, everywhere among the people and made them free from afflictions when the opinion of Parvata had been adopted. By the instructions of Śāņdīlya Parvata allayed illness and, as he had benefited them repeatedly, he fixed the people in his opinion. The Asura created diseases, severe and very numerous, in Sagara's city, harem, and attendants. Even Sagara turned to Parvata because of the people's confidence and he with Sāņdīlya allayed diseases everywhere.
What he taught (485-501) •Drinking wine in the Sautrāmaņi 119 is not wrong according to the rules. Illicit relations with women must be practiced in the sacrifice named 'Gosava.' 120 In the mātsmedha the mother must be killed and in the pitřmedha 121
110 485. See Śatapathabrāhmapa, Kānda v. 5. 4 and XII. 7. ff., SBE, XLI, XLIV.
120 485. For the Gosava, see p. 157 of Caland's Das Jaiminiya Brāhmaṇa in Auswahl; II. 113 of original. Also Garbe's Srautasütra of Āpastamba, 22. 13.
191 486. Pitpmedha is the oblation made to the Pitts and is described in the Satapathabrāhmaṇa XIII. 8. I. ff. (SBE, XLIV). But