Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

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

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CHAPTER TWO lord, Prahasita by name. I am his wife, Hiranyavati, and I have a son, Sinhadanșțra. His daughter is Nilayaśas, whom you have seen. Marry her, prince. She was afflicted with love at the sight of you. This is an auspicious moment. She can not endure delay.”
Sauri replied, “I shall say after consideration. Do you come again." She said, “ Who knows whether you go there or I come here?” With these words she went away somewhere.
One day in the hot weather Sauri had played in the water with Gandharvasenā and had gone to sleep. A ghoul seized him firmly by the hand, saying repeatedly, “ Get up," and carried him off quickly, though struck with his fist (by Vasudeva). Taken near a funeral pyre, he saw a blazing fire and the Khecari Hiraṇyavati with a terrible appearance in front of it. The ghoul, 62 addressed cordially by her, “Welcome, Candravadana," delivered Vārşneya to her and instantly departed. She smiled and said to Vārşņeya: “ Have you considered,.prince ? Consider now, sir, at our insistence."
At that time Nīlayaśas, who had been seen before, came there attended by friends, like the goddess Sri attended by Apsarases. Instructed by her grandmother, “Take your husband,” Nīlayaśas accepted Vasudeva and went through the air. In the morning Hiraṇyavati said to Vasudeva:
“ This is a large mountain, Hrīmat, covered with a forest, Meghaprabha. On it, which is ruled over by flying ascetics, Angāraka, a Khecara-lord, the son of Jvalana, who has lost his magic arts, is again subduing magic arts. The magic arts will submit after a long time, but at sight of you they will submit quickly. Hence you should go to assist him." Told by Vrşņi' son, “No more about him whom I have seen (before),” 63 she conducted him to Śivamandira on Mt. Vaitādhya. At the request of King Sinhadanştra, who took him to his own house, Daśārha married the maiden Nilayaśas.
62 317. Preta is here used interchangeably with bhūta in 315. 63 324. See above, p. 47 f,