Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

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

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CHAPTER THREE
by his fall from the car, he gave him another name also, Śrīśaila. Hanumat grew up, playing happily, like a young rājahansa in a bed of lotuses in Mānasa. .
Añjanā was always sad, like one with an internal dart, at the thought, “The guilt that was laid upon me by my mother-in-law, how will it leave?".
Now Pavana made peace, released Khara and Düşaņa from Varuņa, and satisfied Rāvana. Then Rāvana and his followers went to Lankā; Pavana took leave of him and went to his own city. After bowing to his parents, he went to Añjana's house and saw that it was without Añjanā, like the moon without moonlight. "Where is Añjanå, my wife, the sight of whom is nectar-like collyrium for the eyes ?” he asked a woman who was there. She explained: "A few days after you had gone on your expedition, she was banished by Ketumati because she was pregnant. She was taken near Mahendranagara by guards and turned loose in a forest by the scoundrels, terrified like a doe."
After hearing this, Pavana went to his father-in-law's town with the speed of the wind, eager for his wife, like a pigeon. Not seeing his wife, he asked a young woman, "Has my wife Añjanā come here or not?” She replied, "She came here with Vasantatilakā, but she was banished by her father because of immoral behavior." Struck by those words like a thunderbolt, Pavanañiaya wandered about on mountains, in forests, et cetera to search intensively for his wife. He did not find any news of her and he said in despair, like a god crushed by a curse, to his friend Prahasita:
"Friend, go tell my parents that up to now I, wandering over this earth, have not seen Añjanasundari anywhere. But I shall search for her, wretched, in the forest. If I find her, very well ; if not, I shall enter the fire."
So instructed, Prahasita went quickly to Adityapura and gave the message to Prahlāda and Ketumati.
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