Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

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

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CHAPTER FIVE he had come here to the forest with me, another Vidyādhara, armed with a sword, saw him and said to him : "Where are you going, after seizing this jewel of a woman like a kite a pearl-necklace? Villain, death, in me, is at hand for you.' Thus addressed, he released me here and fought with him for a long time. Both of them perished like rutting wild elephants. I ran away alone and, wandering here and there, found you, like a shadow a tree in the forest, because of my virtue in former births. Therefore, marry me, master, as I am a maiden belonging to a good family. Certainly the request of suitors is not in vain among the noble."
"Certainly some sorceress, disguised like an actor, producing a false play, has come here to deceive us." With these reflections, agreeing in their conjectures, Rāma and Lakşmaņa looked at each other for a long time with wide-open eyes. Then Rāma, his lips blossoming with a flood of moonlight of smiles, said to her, "I have my wife with me. Take Laksmana without a wife." Lakşmaņa, asked by her in the same way, said, “You went to the elder brother. You are like an elder şister. Enough of this conversation."
Kidnaping of Sītā (411-460) Extremely angered by the refusal of her request and the killing of her son, she went and told Khara and the others about the killing of her son which they had committed. Accompanied by fourteen thousand Vidyadharas, they went to attack Rāma like elephants attacking a mountain. "While I am here, will the elder brother himself fight with such people?” Lakşmaņa asked Rāma for permission to fight them. “Go, son, to victory. If there should be any difficulty, give a lion's roar to summon me,” he instructed him. Agreeing definitely to Rāma's command, Lakşmaña, accompanied by his bow, went and commenced killing them, like Garuda killing serpents.