Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

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

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with charms and spells. subside at all and the gave him poison.
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Bhadra fled somewhere, terrified by her crime; and the king worshipped the Jinas and performed propitiatory rites to avert evil, et cetera for the sake of his son. He talked unceasingly, recalling his son's virtues again and again. The vassals and other ministers were also without any devices (for a cure).
CHAPTER ONE
But the effects of the poison did not report arose in the city, Bhadra
Origin of friendship of Sumitra and Citragati (161-196)
Just then Citragati came there in his aerial car, as he was wandering through the air for amusement, and saw the city miserable from grief. When he learned about the criminal poisoning, he got out of his aerial car and sprinkled the prince with water charmed by a magic art. The prince, his eyes opened, got up, asking, "What's this?" his heart uninjured. There is no limit to the power of a charm. The king told him, Your mother Bhadra 16, hostile, gave you poison. This man, at once a brother for no reason, allayed it, son.
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His hands placed together respectfully, Sumitra said to Citragati: "Indeed, I know your family just from your idea of assistance to strangers. Nevertheless, favor me now by telling me about your family. Whose mind is not eager to hear about the relatives of the great?"
Then an attendant of Citragati, a minister's son, told everything, the family-line, et cetera, delighting the ears of all. Sumitra, delighted, said to him: "Really the poisoner and the poison did me a favor today. How otherwise would the meeting with you have taken place? You did not give mere life to me; but furthermore I have been saved from a low birth resulting from death without complete renunciation and the formula of homage.17 What can I do in return for you
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16 164. Really his step-mother, of course. 17 169. Pratyäkhyāna and namaskāra.
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