Vivagsuyam

Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Gurjar Granth Ratna Karyalay

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make love to their daughters. The plot is, however, soon discovered by the king who put all those mothers and their daughters to death by putting them in a palace and setting it on fire one night. Greatly enamoured, as he was, of queen Samā he did not think over the wicked nature of the heinous act that he had done and as a result of this wicked act he was re-born in hell and after that as Devadatta. This second episode of Deva
datta opens a further page of the crooked intrigues of women, and shows the climax which such women would reach for satisfying their lust and passions without caring even for the happiness of their own husbands. This lecture, however, puts forth one good aspect of this world also. It teaches us one noble and important lesson of becoming greatly devoted to our mothers which, if put in the language of the Hindu Upanisads is "geat H"-adore as your mother a god. And the example of king Pusanandi, given here in this respect, is worthy of imitation and praise.
The tenth lecture has hardly to say anything more than what has been said in some of the foregoing lectures. It emphasizes the evil fruits of leading the life of a courtezan and shows that no medicines on earth, even, can ever cure the