Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

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

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PREVIOUS INCARNATIONS OF ARISTANEMI their temples and made many pājās with Yašomati.
Manisekhara conducted the prince to Kanakapura, seated him in his house, and worshipped him like a deity. All the inhabitants of Vaitādhya came and looked at Sánkba and Yašomati again and again as if they were something marvelous that had come. Other Kheoaras there, delighted by the toward of victory over enemies, et cetera, became magnificent soldiers of the prince. They gave their daughters to him, but he answered, “I shall marry these after I have married Yasomati.” Then they, Manisekhara and others, took their daughters and conducted Sankha to Campā with Yaśomati. It was announced to Jitāri that a bridegroom, surrounded by Khecara-lords, had come with his daughter and he went to meet them, exceedingly rejoiced. After embracing Sankha ardently, the king had him enter the city and married him to his daughter with a great festival. Then Sankha married the daughters of the Vidyādharas, and made a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sri Vāsupūjya with devotion. After dismissing the Khecaras, Sankha remained there with his wives, Yasomati and others, and then went to Hastināpura.
Sūra and Soma fell from Arana and became his younger brothers, Yaśodhara and Gañadhara, as in a former birth. One day King Srişeņa gave the earth to Sankha and took the vow at the feet of Gañadhara Gunadhara. As Śrīşeņa observed penance hard to perform, so Sankha, with glory as brilliant as a conch, governed the earth for a long time..
One day the great muni, Śrīşeņa, whose omniscience had arisen, came there in his wandering, resplendent with the attendance of gods. King Sankha came and paid homage to him with great devotion and then listened to a sermon resembling a boat for crossing the ocean of worldly existence. At the end of the sermon, Sankha said: “I know from your teaching that in worldly existence no one belongs to any one, but is isolated. Nevertheless, why this extreme affection for Yaśomati on my part? Please explain, All-knowing. Instruct me ignorant."