Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

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

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MARRIAGES OF VASUDEVA WITH MAIDENS 43 prince. No more of that request.” Vasudeva persevered in asking the king again and finally he sent him forth with many soldiers.
Vasudeva went rapidly and King Sinharatha went to meet him and a great battle between the two took place. Sinharatha put to flight Vasudeva's army; and Vasudeva himself with Kansa as a charioteer advanced to fight. Then the two fought for a long time with various weapons, like a god and demon, longing for victory over each other from anger.
Then Kansa ceased being a charioteer and, powerful, soon broke Sinharatha's strong chariot with a very large club. Blazing with anger, Siñharatha drew his sword to kill Kansa and Vasudeva cut it at the hilt with a sharp-edged arrow. Kansa, arrogant from tricks and strength, tossed up Sinharatha, like a wolf tossing a goat, bound him, and threw him in Vasudeva's chariot. Sinharatha's army having been broken, then Vārşneya, victorious, took Sinharatha along and gradually returned to his own city.
King Samudravijaya said to Vasudeva secretly: “What the astrologer Kroșțuki told me is certainly useful. "This daughter of Jarāsandha, Jivayaśas by name, inauspicious, will certainly cause the destruction of her husband's and father's family.52 Jarāsandha will give her to you as a reward for bringing Sinharatha. Some means must be devised for not accepting her.”
Vasudeva replied: "Kaňsa captured Sinharatha in battle and brought him. So Jivayaśas must be given to him.” The king said: “He will not want to take her, because he is a merchant's son, but he appears to be of the warrior caste from his strength.” The rasa-merchant, questioned by the king after he had administered an oath (of secrecy), told the story about Kansa from the beginning, Kansa listening. Subhadra delivered the rings of Ugrasena and Dhāriņi and also the letter to the king, who had the letter read. “The son, dearer
52 95. When this prediction was made is not told in our account.