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accomplished. Rāvana sent messengers to summon the Vidyadharas, one to each, and now I was sent to you."
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When Prahlada himself started to give aid to Daśāsya, Pavanañjaya said to him, "Stay here, father. I shall satisfy Daśagrīva's wish. I am your son.' Saying this persistently, Pavanañjaya obtained his father's consent, talked with the rest of the people, and started out. Añjanā heard about her husband's expedition from the people's talk and, eager, came down from the top of the palace like a goddess from the zenith of the sky.
Leaning against a pillar, in order to see him, she stood like a puppet, her eyes unwinking, her heart shaken by anxiety. As he went along, Pavana saw Añjanā resting against the door-post, thin as a new moon, her forehead covered with disheveled hair, without any cosmetics, the vines of her arms, relaxed and feeble, resting on her hips, the blossoms of her lips gray without the red of the betel, her face washed with the water of tears, standing before him, her face upturned, her eyes devoid of collyrium.
Observing her, Prahlada's son thought at once: "Oh! the shamelessness and the fearlessness of this evil-minded woman! Yet I knew her evil-mindedness before, but I married her, afraid to disobey my father's command."
She fell at his feet and said, her hands folded submissively: "You have talked with every one else, but not at all with me. Nevertheless, you are asked that I should not be forgotten by you. May your paths be blessed with a quick return.
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Completely ignoring her so speaking, miserable, though with excellent conduct, Pavanañjaya went to victory. Wounded by her husband's contempt and by separation from him, after she had gone into the house, she fell to the ground, like the bank of the Sindhu whose ground has been penetrated by water. Then Prahlada's son flew up like the wind, went to Lake Mānasa, and stopped there at night-fall. Pavanañjaya created a palace there and inhabited it. A vidya of the Vidyadharas alone is a cow
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