Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

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

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HANUMAT'S BIRTH AND VARUŅR'S SUBJECTION 163 your daughter, Añjanasundari, to my son.” Mahendra agreed, for that was his intention in the beginning. Prahlada's request was merely a reason.
They said, “The wedding must take place on the third day from this at the best of lakes, Mānasa,” and went to their proper places. Then Mahendra and Prahlāda went to Lake Mānasa joyfully with their households and built a house.
Pavanañjaya said to his friend, Prahasita, “You have seen Añjanasundari. Tell me what she is like.” · Prahasita laughed a little and said: "I think Añjanasundari is fairer than Rambhā, et cetera. Her unequaled beauty, as it is seen by the eye, can not be described by the voice even by Bșhaspati."
: Pavanañjaya said: "The time of the wedding is far away. How can she be brought within my range of vision, friend? To those eager from love an hour becomes a day, a day becomes a month. How much more three days !"
Then Prahasita replied: "Be calm. By going there at night, you will see your beloved, unobserved.” Flying up, Pavanañjaya left with Prahasita for the seven-storied palace presided over by Añjanasundari. Concealing themselves like spies, Pavanañjaya and his friend succeeded in seeing Añjanasundarī fully. “You are lucky to get Pavanañjaya for a husband," her friend, Vasantatilakā, said to Añjanasundari. "Friend, who is to be praised as a husband, except the noble Vidyutprabha, who has his last body?” 188 her friend Miśrakā said. The first one said, "Foolish girl, do you not know anything? How can Vidyutprabha with a short life be suitable for the mistress?"
The second one said, "Friend, it is you who are stupid. Even a little nectar is better than a lot of poison."
Hearing this conversation of theirs, Pavanañjaya thought, "This is certainly agreeable to her, as she does
182 26. This is his last birth.