Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

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

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CHAPTER ONE
blossoms out, bearing fruit. A handsome man, holding this in his hand, said: "This very same mango tree is being planted today in your court-yard. When some time has passed, it will be set in different places up to nine times, bearing better fruit each time. "
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She told her husband the dream and he had it interpreted by experts. They, joyful, explained: You will have a distinguished son. But we do not know the meaning of the planting of the mango nine times in different places. Only an omniscient knows its interpretation.
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After hearing their speech, the delighted queen carried her embryo from that time, like the earth carrying the best treasure. At the right time Dhāriņi bore a son with a pure form, like the east bearing the sun, a source of joy to the world. The king held his son's birth-festival accompanied by large gifts on an auspicious day, and he was named Dhana.
Dhana grew up to his father's and mother's delight and he was passed from lap to lap by kings like nurses. He acquired gradually the entire collection of arts and he reached youth, the pleasure-garden of Ananga (Love).
Now, in the city Kusumapura there was a king, Sinha, powerful as a lion, glorious in deeds of battle. His chief-queen was named Vimalā, spotless as a digit of the moon, dear as life, like a goddess roaming on earth. A daughter, Dhanavati, of surpassing beauty was borne by her to King Sinha, after many sons. She grew up in course of time with a wealth of beauty surpassing the beauty of beautiful women, Rati and others; and she comprehended all the arts.
One day when the time giving joy to the night-blooming white 3 lotus was at hand, attended by friends she went to see a garden. Like a goddess she wandered freely in the garden charming with the buzzing of bees flying about the blooming
3 25. Kumuda. The season described must be spring. But the kumuda does not bloom especially in spring. Its best blooming season is the rainy one, according to Roxburgh,