Book Title: 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 VARUŅA'S SUBJECTION 167 of plenty for all supernatural powers. Occupying his couch there on the ground near the lake, he saw the cakraväki grieved by separation from her mate. Seeing her not eating even the lotus-tendrils gathered before, burned from the cold like hot water, pained by the moonlight like a mass of flames, crying pitifully, he reflected: "The cakravākīs enjoy themselves with their mates all day, but are not able to endure separation from them at night. The woman who was deserted by me at the wedding, to whom I have never spoken, who was scorned, like another man's wife, by me when I went away, crushed completely by a load of sorrow like a mountain, how, alas I will she be happy at an unforeseen union with me! Shame! Shame! She, miserable, is dying from my lack of discernment. Where shall I go, evil-faced from the sin of her murder ?” He told Prahasita these thoughts. For no one, except a friend, is a suitable person for telling one's grief. Prahasita said: "It is well that you have realized this even after a long time. She is, indeed, perishing now from separation, like a blue crane. 184 She is suitable for you to console even now. After taking leave of her with friendly words, you should fly again on your own business." Urged by his friend, like his heart, agreeing with his inclination, Māruta 186 flew up and went to Añjanasundari's house. Pavanañjaya stopped a little way off, just at the door, and Prahasita went ahead and entered the house. Prahasita, saw Añjanasundarī there tossing on her couch like a large fish in a little water, distressed by the moonlight like a lotus by the cold, the pearls of her necklace bursting from the heat in her heart, the wreaths of hair waving from the deep sighs breathed out, with broken jeweled bracelets on her feeble and relaxed arms against the sides of the bed, being consoled repeatedly by her friend, 184 86. Proverbial as inseparable. H.P., p. 210. 186 88. Pavanañjaya. . : Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org


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