Vasudevahimdi Madhyama Khanda Part 1

Author(s): Dharmdas Gani, H C Bhayani, R M Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Introduction
there to pay thsir homage (33). Thereupon V. said he wished to know whether those girls were married or unmarried, and there followed a volley of jokes and bantering from his wives.
Queen Hiranyavatı arrived there to pay homage to Namidāsa. Being invited by her, V. met and paid his respects to his Vidyadbara fatherin-laws viz-Aganivega, Simhadastra and Vidyudvega, their wives, and Gan. dharvadatta's brothers, Simbayaśas and Varābagriva, all of whom had come there for the occasion. Taey requested V. to send his Vidyadhara wives with them to attend the holy convention of all the Vidyadhara groups of different traditions that was shortly to be held on the mount Hiinat, in front of the images of Samjayanta and Dharana, the kings of the Nägas. Bālcandrā too, wished to join them with a view to strive there under Vegavau's guidance is acquire the Vidyās. V. consented. The Vidyādbara wivos departed, leaving V. in the company of his two human wives. At that moment the magic palace created by Balaca ndrá also disappeared. v. returned to Kunālā. Priyangusundari comforted him (34-35 ).
It was autumn ( sarad ) then (Description of the season ). Once he was awakened from sleep, as words uttered by some woman with a sweet voice fell on his ears. (36) He found Prabhāvail, who had come there as Somastiś messanger. Overwhelmed by her voluptuous beauty, he followed her (37-38). As V. enquired about Somasti, Prabhāvari first introduced herself as the daughter of Pavanajava and Samma:ā, king and queen of Suvarnamañjart in the Suvarnabhūmi province on the Southern range of Vedikārdha. Astrologers had predicated that she would be Vi's wife Onco when she went to see her friend Vegavati, she came to know that the latter had married V. and was with him then at Mahāpura in the southern half of Bharata. She was also told that king Māoasavega had abducted V's human wife Somaści and kept her in captivity in the Pramadavana garden. S) Prabhāvatı visited Sowaśćand they became friends. Once on the night of the full-moon festival, she was requested by the latter to know through her miraculous powers the whereabouts of V. and to bring him there. Accordingly Prabbāvatı bad contacted V. Thereupon V. readily agreed to go with hor to Somašri. ( 38-41 ).
Prabhāvati held Vasudeva's hand and carried him with her through the aerial regions on their way they witnessed the celebratiods of the moon. light festival. ( Detailed description of the festival ). Prabhārati, witnessing various scenes during their passage over the forest regions, indicated several times through innuendoes, her intense passion for V. who rightly interpreted her behaviour ( 41-46). Under the ruse of being thirsty y. made V-2