Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

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

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STORIES OF RAUHIŅEYA AND OTHERS
279 do not take her and her and her and the long-eyed maiden for the king, I am not Yogandharāyaṇa.” Candapradyota, as he was walking, heard his clever speech and looked at him with a leering glance. Yogandharāyaṇa, who was a judge of human nature, knew at once by the gestures, et cetera, of the others that the king of Avanti was angry. First of the quick-witted, the minister adopted this expedient to disown his partisanship of the king of Kaušāmbi. He took off his upper clothing and, standing in the deformed shape of a ghoul committing a nuisance, he made it appear that he was possessed by a demon. ""That is some one possessed by a demon.” The king recognized this and restrained his anger at once, like an elephant-driver restraining an elephant.
Then Caņdapradyota, who had a faultless voice, went into the garden and began a musical entertainment-an efficacious remedy for the elephant Smara. Eager to see new skill in music, King Pradyota summoned Vāsavadattā and the king of the Vatsas. The king of the Vatsas said to Pradyota's daughter, “ Fair lady, now is the time for us to mount the she-elephant Vegavati and go.” At Udayana's command the king of Avanti's daughter at once had the she-elephant Vegavati, that was faster than the wind, led out. As the girth was being fastened, the elephant cried out; and a blind astrologer, who heard the cry, said, “Since the elephant cries out while the girth is being fastened, she will die after she has gone a hundred yojanas." The elephant-driver, Vasantaka, fastened four jars of urine at the sides of the elephant at Udayana's order. Then the king of the Vatsas, holding Ghosavati in his hand, Pradyota's daughter, Kāñcanamālā, and Vasanta mounted the she-elephant. Yogandharāyaņa came and urged on Udayana with a gesture of his hand, saying, “Go! Go !” As he went, he (Udayana) said: “Vāsavadattā, Kāñcanamālā, Vasantaka, Vegavatī, Ghoşavati and the king of the Vatsas—these are leaving." The king of the Vatsas, urging on the she-elephant with great speed, but making this announcement, did not violate the conduct