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THE RECOVERY OF DRAUPADI
289 in a ditch made by a wheel, was restrained with his left foot. This weaver is a kşatriya by whom a noisy army, living in Kalasīpura 277 was checked with his left hand. He, with clearly heroic practices, is a suitable son-in-law for me."
He said to Viraka, “ Take Ketumañjarī.” Unwilling but ordered by Kṛṣṇa with a frown, Vīraka married his daughter, Ketumañjari, and took her to his house. Ketumañjari reclined on a couch continually and Viraka carried out her orders day and night. One day śārngin asked him, “Does Ketumañjari carry out your orders ? ” and Viraka said, “I carry out her orders." Kļşņa said to him, “ If you do not compel her do all your work, I shall throw you in prison.”
Knowing Kệşņa's intentions, Vira went and said to Ketumañjarī, “Make a sizing for clothing. Why do you merely sit?” “You, a weaver, do not know (what is proper)." Fearlessly Viraka beat her saying this angrily with the strings of a weaver's brush. Weeping, she went to her father and told him her mistreatment. Kșşņa said, “ You, giving up mastery, chose servitude." "She said, “Now give me mastery." Krşņa said, “Now you are subject to Viraka, not to me.” Begged earnestly by her, Kșşņa restrained Viraka, took her, and had her take initiation under Nemi Svāmin,
One day Kļşņa made the homage of the twelve āvartas to all the sādhus, but the other kings did not have strength (enough). Following Vāsudeva, Viraka made the homage of the twelve āvartas 278 to all the sādhus after him. Krşņa said to the Master: “ I was not so tired from three hundred and sixty battles 279 as from that homage.” The Omniscient said: “Kļşņa, you have acquired much merit today, right-belief
277 229. With a play on kalasī, "water-jar.' 278 240. See above, p. 120.
279 242. Pandit L. B. Gandhi says he has seen allusions to Krşņa fighting 360 battles. There were 18,000 sādhus in Neminātha's train and if he did the āvartas to all, as it distinctly says, it would be quite a feat for Kțşņa, to say nothing of Vīra. 37 N
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