Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

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

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CHAPTER TWO Nandişeņa reflected, “How can the great sage be cured?' and paid no attention to the bitter words. He (the god) in his divine form removed the filth and joyfully showered flowers on the muni, circumambulated him three times, and bowed to him. The god told him about the praise given by Sakra, begged his forgiveness, and said, 'What may I give you?' The muni said: 'I have acquired dharma which is very hard to acquire. Hence there is nothing of value here that I can ask of you.' So answered, the god went to heaven and the muni to his own shelter. Questioned by the sādhus, he related everything without pride.
For twelve thousand years he practiced penance hard to endure and at the end, when he had observed a fast, he remembered his own hard fate. Because of that penance, may I be dear to women. After making that nidāna,46 he became a god in Mahāśukra. Then Nandişeņa fell and became your son, this Vasudeva, attractive to women because of his nidāna."
Then Andhakavşşņi installed Samudravijaya on the throne and he himself became a mendicant under Supratiştha and attained emancipation.
Previous birth of Kansa (52–61) Bhojavşşņi became a mendicant and then Ugrasena was king in Mathurā and his chief-queen was Dhāriņi. One day Ugrasena was going along outside (the city) and saw an ascetic standing in a secluded spot, observing a month's fast. He had made a vow,47 “I shall break fast after a month's fast with alms taken from one house, not otherwise.” Month after month he broke his fast with alms from one house and went to the secluded place, but not to another house. Ugrasena invited him for fast-breaking and went home. The ascetic followed him but the king had forgotten him. Without eating
46 50. See II, n. 29. 47 54. Abhigraha. See I, n. 102.