Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

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

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CHAPTER TWO he stood in front of her, scolded the elephant, as if he were the elephant-driver himself.
Leaving her, the elephant, unrestrainable from anger, ran at Yādava; and Yādava, very strong, tamed the elephant. The elephant being bewildered, Yādava picked her up, took her into a house, and restored her by fanning with his upper garment, et cetera. She was taken home by nurses; and Sauri with his father-in-law was taken to his house by a caravan-leader Kubera, with great respect.
After he had bathed and eaten, Sauri remained there, until the king's female door-keeper came with blessings for the victory and said:
“King Somadatta has a superior daughter, Somaśrī. · In the past it was said, 'Her husband certainly should be chosen in a svayamvara.' But when she saw the gods who had come to the omniscience-festival of Yatin Sarvāṇa,67 the recollection of her former births took place. From that time the gazelleeyed maiden resorted to silence. Questioned by me in secret one day she told as follows:
There was a god in Mahāśukra. In that birth he enjoyed pleasures with me, very dear to him, for a long time. With this same me he made a pilgrimage one time to Nandiśvara, et cetera, held a birth-festival of the Arhat, and returned to his own place. When he had reached. Brahmaloka, the god fell 68° and I, grieved, went to the Kurus in this Bharata, searching for him. I saw there two omniscients and asked them, “ Where has my husband, who fell from heaven, been born?” They told me: “Your husband has appeared in a royal house in the Hari-line. You also will be a king's daughter, when you have fallen from heaven, When he rescues you from an elephant at the sakra-festival then he will become your husband again." After honoring them devotedly, I went to my own place. In
67 399. The typography here is not quite right and it is impossible to be sure whether the name is Savārņa or Sarvāṇa.
68 403. Brahmaloka is a lower heaven than Mahāśukra. He got only so far.