Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

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

Page 88

MARRIAGES OF VASUDEVA WITH MAIDENS 57 pearls, the god and the chiefs of the Vidyādharas went to their own places.
The next morning I saw my maternal uncle, Sarvārtha, my wife, Mitravati and the courtesan Vasantasenā, whose hair was arranged in a braid down her back.59 Now that Gandharvasenā's lineage has been narrated to you, Vasudeva, do not scorn her with the idea, 'She is a merchant's daughter.'”
Marriage with the Mātangi, Nilayaśas (303–338)
After hearing her story from Cārudatta, Vșsņi's son, very delighted, sported with Gandharvasenā. In Caitra, as he was going with her in a chariot to a garden, he saw a girl in a Mātanga-dress, surrounded by Mātangas.60 When Gandharvasenā saw that they were becoming interested in each other, red-eyed (from anger), she said to the charioteer,“ Speed up the horses."
After Vasudeva had gone quickly to the garden and had played with her, he went again to the city Campā. Then an old Mātanga-woman came from the group of Mātangas, approached Vasudeva, gave him her blessing, and said:
Story of Nilayaśas (307-338) “When Rşabhadhvaja divided his realm and gave it to his followers in the past, it happened that Nami and Vinami were not there.61 Seeking a kingdom, they served the Lord even though he had taken the vow. The Indra Dharaņa gave them the sovereignty of the two rows (of Vidyādharas), one to each.
In course of time they gave the realm to their sons, became mendicants near the Master and attained emancipation as if, emancipated, to see the Lord. Nami's son, Mātanga, became a mendicant and went to heaven. In his line there is a Khecara
39 300. I.e., she wore her hair as if she were a widow.
60 303. Mātanga here is the name of a Vidyādhara-line. See I, p. 176. For Nami, see I, p. 170.
61 307. See I, pp. 170 ff. 8N