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Tama goes to the Region of Brahma





The sages said:

1. Kindly narrate in detail the rite of propitiating Vishnu,. wheieby he becomes satisfied and bounteously bestows the cherished desire.

2. The Lord of the Universe, the consort of Lakshmi, is the destroyer of all the vast multitudes of sins. By what rite will he be pleased alongwith all the mobile and immobile creation (which he pervades through his omni-prescnce).

Sauti said:

3. Hpslkesa (Vishnu) can be captivated by devotion and not by riches. О Ruler of the Earth, Vishnu when duly wor­shipped with devotion, grants all desires.

4. Hence, О Brahmanas, the devotion to the discus­bearing Lord should always be practised. The Lord of the universe worshipped even by ordinary people, shall be the des­troyer of distress.

5. Just as a thirsty man immediately derives satisfaction with water, so is the Lord pleased immediately (with activities of devotion). О Brahmanas, in this connection, a mythological narrative that is destructive of sins, is heard.

1. It is an interesting introduction to the story of Rukmangada and Mohini. This chapter emphasizes the efficacy of the Ekadashi Vrata by describing how Yama has to close his Office as all men, being compelled to observe Ekadashi by Rukmangada, straightway went to Vaikuntha.

6. It is in the course of conversation between Rukmangada and sage Gautama.

There was a king named Rukmangada.1 He was an Emperor endowed with the quality of patience and forgiveness.

7. He was a beloved devotee of the deity lying in the Milk Ocean (i.e. Vishnu). He was devoted to the day of Hari (i.e. Ekadashi). The Lord of the Earth does not see anyone other than Padmanabha (Vishnu), Lord of the Devas.

8-11. On the day of Hari (Ekadashi), he used to pro­claim through his servants by beating a drum kept on an elephant — “If any man (or woman) aged more than eight years and less than eightyfive years takes food on the day of Vishnu, that stupid fellow will be punished, killed or banished out of the city, even if it be my father, brother, son, wife or friend. The person who takes food on the day of Padmanabha (i.e. Vishnu) will be worthy of being punished like a robber.2 Give gifts to leading Brahmanas, have your holy dip in the waters of Jahnavi. Listen to my words and enjoy my kingdom.”

12. Thus on every day of Vishnu (Ekadashi day) in the bright half of the month and especially in the dark half also, the king proclaimed thus through the drums with golden coverings.

13. О excellent Brahmanas, when this was announced by the king throughout the land, the pathway leading to Hari’s world (Vaikuntha) was thronged by the people going there.

14. All the men who died in the realm of the king (observing Ekadashi) whether knowingly or through error, went to the abode of Hari.

1. Rukmangada the son of Rtadhvaja, the King of Vidis'3. He is the hero of this story.

2. Hemadri on Kdla (p. 172) quotes these verses with a slight difference, but in Kdlanirvaya (p. 257) a different text of the same import is quoted as from the NP. The verse is as follows:

atra Naradah

ajfdbddd adhiko martyo hyapurjiaMti-hdyanah /

bhunkU yo mdnavo mohad tkddaiyam sa pdpakft //

15. О Brahmanas, the world of Vishnu is definitely attained by men even if they fraudulently observe the rite of Ekadashi that is destructive of sins.

16. He who takes food on the day of Hari consumes the sin of the whole of the Earth. He who does not eat food on the day of Hari, attains the virtue (religious merit) of the entire Earth.

1 7. The Smrti following the Vedas says:

“A Brahmana should not be killed so also Food should not be taken on the Ekadashi day in both the fortnights.”

18. О excellent Brahmanas, the king, the son of the Sun (i.e. Yama) became embarrassed. Citragupta1 had ample rest in his writing activity.

19. Everything that had been written by him based on the activities of the previous births was erased and struck off by him (since) the men instantaneously went over to Vishnu’s abode through their holy rites.

20. All the hells became devoid of sinful creatures. The pathway leading to Yama’s world became scorched by the twelve Adityas and delapidated.

21. All the people went to Hari’s region riding on Garuda. The worlds of the Devas also became vacant and tenantless.

22. The sacrifices to the Pitrs and the Devas, pilgrimage to holy centres, charitable gifts and other holy rites became out of vogue. Excepting Ekadashi, men did not know any other Vrata.

23. When the heaven and the hell became empty, Narada went to Dharmaraja (Yama) and said: —

Narada said:

24. ‘ O King, no cry is heard in your court-yard and in the hells. Nothing is being noted down in writing about the evil-doers.

25. This Citragupta1 is sitting silent like a sage. What is the reason whereby no sinner comes to your abode?

1. Citragupta — the record-keeper of merits and sins of human beings, in Yama’s Office.

26-27a. No one engaged in wicked actions comes to your threshold. None in the grip of deception and arrogance comes to your abode.”

When these words were uttered by the noble-souled Narada, Vaivasvata (son of the Sun), the king of the world of Death said with a little disconcertedness:

Tama said:

27b-28. О Narada, the King who is now ruling over the Earth is a great devotee ofHrsikesa (Lord Vishnu). This leading king instructs the people announcing on the beating of the drum.

29. “Nothing should be eaten, nothing should be eaten at all on the day of Hari. The men who take food shall be liable to punishment.”

30-31. Being afraid of him, all the people observe fast on the Ekadashi day. О excellent sage, those who even fraudulently observe fast on the Ekadashi day, go to the world of Vishnu which is devoid of burning and dissolution (at the end of Kalpa). Byresorting to EkadaS (Vrata) people go to Hari’s palace.

32. О excellent Brahmana, the paths leading to my world have been made empty by that king now. The hells as well as the worlds of heaven-dwellers have been made vacant by him.

33. The writers (Yama’s accountants of deeds of men) are taking rest. О excellent Brahmana, what has been already written is erased and written off, thanks to the greatness of the fast on the Ekadash! day.

34. О Brahmana, without experiencing the fruits of Brahmana-slaughter and other sins, people go to Hari’s mansion by observing fast on the day of Vishnu.

35. О great sage, I have become one resembling a wooden deer. I am like a person devoid of eyes and ears, like a Brahmana who has eschewed Sandhya prayers.

36. I am like a hen-pecked husband, or like an impotent husband of a youthful woman. I have abandoned all desire for such a post of guardianship of the world.

37-38a. I shall now go to the region of Brahma to report to him about my misery. If an employee who is to abide by the behest of his master does not work actively but goes on eating the wealth of his master, he shall certainly go to hell.

Sauti said:

38b-41. О Brahmanas, after saying this, Yama went to the abode of Virafici (god Brahma) accompanied by Narada and followed by Citragupta. He beheld there seated the great- grand-father of all, surrounded by both embodied and bodiless people — Brahma the seed of the universe, the support of the universe, the self-born deity, the abode of all living beings. He was free from sin, and was designated as Omkara. He is Suci (pure) and Sucipada (ofpure region). Brahma, the Supreme Soul (Hamsa) holding Kusha grass was being worshipped by the different guardians of the quarters and rulers of the worlds.

42-47. He was being served by all these (in person): viz — the Epics, Puranas and Vedas in their embodied forms; he was served by the oceans, the rivers and the lakes that had assumed bodily forms; the trees such as the holy fig tree and others served him by taking up human bodies; so also the tanks, wells, lakes, mountains, days and nights, fortnights, months, years, Kalas, Kasthas and Nimesas (units of time), seasons, transits of the suns, Yugas, Manvantaras, Kalpas, closing and opening of the eyelids (the smallert unit of time) constellations, Yogas (combinations) Karanas, (astronomical divisions), full-moon days, declines of the moon, new-moon days, Dvandvas (i.e. mutually clashing opposites such as happiness and misery, profits and loss, success and failures, truth and falsehood — all these were serving the deity. The Lord of the Devas, the sanctifier of righteousness, was surrounded by them. He was being served by persons who knew the holy rites and who were befitting him. The grandfather was being served by Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas Gunas.

48-50. The lord was served and surrounded by the emotions such Santa, (calm), Mudba (confused) and Ati- ghora (exceedingly terrible); by the wind, phlegm and bile (the humours), by the embodied Atanka(agony)etc. and by Ananda bliss; the soul of the universe had recourse to the greatest Dharma; the creator of the worlds himself was surrounded by other living beings not mentioned here; he was being served by the embodiments of evil words and harsh statements etc. Yama the son of the Sun, entered the place amidst them like a bashful bride.

51-55. With his head bent down and glance directed beneath to the floor, he appeared before them. On seeing Yama entering alongwith Narada and his Kayastha (accoun­tant i.e. Citragupta) the people there were surprised. With surprised looks they spoke to one another — “Why? How comes it to be that Bhaskari (son of the Sun i.e. Yama) has come here to see the Creator and the grand-sire of the worlds? This son of Sun never remains inactive even for a moment. He is always active. Then how is it that he has come now. I hope everything is all right with the heaven-dwellers. I consider this as the wonder of wonders, that the clerk (Chitra- gupta) has come with his (writing) cloth completely erased and clean. He is full of great distress. No person who performs holy rites has ever erased his cloth. What has never been seen or heard is being seen now.”

56-58. О Brahmana, even as they were speaking mutual­ly thus, the son of Sun (i.e. Yama) who used to chastise all Jiving beings, fell in front of god Brahma, just like a tree the root of which is cut. He cried aloud “O save me, О save me, О Lord of the Devas, I have been overwhelmed and oppressed since my writing cloth has been erased clean. While you are my Lord, О Lotus-seated one, I find myself distressed.” О excellent Brahmanas, after saying this he became unconscious, motionless.

59-61. Then a tumultuous commotion arose in the assembly, “He who makes all the worlds consisting of the mobile and immobile beings, is himself distressed and is crying. Why is Yama, the son of the Sun, crying? Or this common saying seems to be a statement of truth — the saying “He who distresses the people ere long is distressed himself. No man who commits an evil action ever attains auspicious results.”

62-64. Thereafter, knowing the view of god Brahma, Vayu the Wind-god, silenced the talk of those people of the same mind (i.e. holding the same opinion regarding Yama and his arrival there) The liberal-minded Vayu raised Yama slowly with his brawny well-developed hands. He placed him on a seat even as he was agitated and was about to run away. He spoke to Yama the son of Sun, having the Ethereal form and ac­companied by his Kayastha (Accounts-clerk Gitragupta).

65-67. “By whom have you been attacked? By whom have you been displaced and banished? By whom has your cloth (record) of the world, the divine cloth, been erased? Speak out everything completely. Or may this god Brahma say? О dear one, he who is the lord of all, shall grant you the uplift. О son of Martanda (Sun), he will remove all the misery in your heart.’

68. On being addressed thus by the Windgod, Yama, the son of the Lord of Day (the Sun), looked to the face of Narada, the son of Brahma and slowly uttered the following words in a voice choked with tears.

 

CHAPTER FOUR

An Appeal by Tama

Tama said:

1. О Lord Pitamaha, Grandsire of the world, listen to my words. О Lord, humiliation of one’s exploits is worse than death.

2. О lotus-born deity, he who is devoid of selfish motive and desire, and does not carry out his appointed task, falls into hell which is like a blind well.

3. О lotus-seated one, the employee who does not implement the direction, but continues to consume the wealth of his master, shall be a worm in the decaying wood.

4. The employee who, out of greed, consumes (i.e. misappropriates) the wealth of the common subjects or the king falls into hell for a period of three hundred Kalpas.

5. He who is interested only in selfish gains and so robs his master, shall be a slow-witted mouse in the house for three hundred Kalpas.

6. The employee who, enjoying himself in his house, shirks his own work and compels the king’s servants to do his work also, shall take the birth of a cat.

7-8a. О Lord! It is at your behest that after due con­sultation with sages and texts on DharmaShastra that I had been administering justice and governing the subjects commending the merit of the meritorious and condemning the sin of the sinners.

8b-9. Since the beginning of the present Kalpa so long as it is your day, I can carry out my duties by dint of your command. But today I have been defeated (and over­powered) in my work by King Rukmangada.1

10. О Lord of the Universe, afraid of that king, the entire ocean-girt Earth does not eat anything on the day of Vishnu (the Ekadashi day) that is destructive of all sins.

11. People eschew all holy rites; they abandon the wor­ship of Pitrs, they do not worship Devas, they neglect pilgrimages, holy ablutions and other good rites.

12. О bestower of honour, they eschew both the systems of philosophy — Yoga and Sankhya. They neglect the perfect knowledge and the knowable; they abandon self study of Vedas and the performance of Homas; (over and above all these) they commit many number of sins.

13-15a. Still they go to the region of Vishnu by observing fast on the day of Hari. They go to the world of Vishnu alongwith their fathers and grandfathers. Their fathers and father’s fathers, mother’s fathers, their fathers and their ances­tors — all these go to the world of Vishnu.

15b-19. О Lord, this is the misery that cuts me to the quick wiping off my writings (i.e. decrees), the fathers of their beloved ones go to the abode of Vishnu (?). A man is born of the seed of his ancestors, he is held in the belly of the bearer (woman). He who commits any sin, has to experience the fruits thereof. But О Brahma, the seed that originates from tlie nurse is sown by another. It may perhaps redeem both the sides, the one who is offered the Pintja and the one to whom the body belongs. But the wife has no seed nor the wife holds him in her womb. Then, О Lord of the Universe, how does her side attain the greatest region through the greatness of the merit of the son-in-law? Therefore, my head aches.

1. VV. 9-25 a: This is another way of describing the glory and efficacy of the EkAdail Vrata.

20. О Lord, no purpose of mine is served, thanks to this sort of employment, whoever observes fast on the Ekadashi day leaves me оГГ and goes to Hari.

21. О Lotus-born deity, he uplifts three generations in­cluding himself. After leaving off my path, he goes to Hari’s mansion.

22-24. No man attains such a destination as that of a devotee who performs the holy rite of Vimu — Not even if he performs sacrifices (Yajnas), goes on pilgrimage to the holy centres or gives charitable gifts or performs those Vratas with the exception of those pertaining to Vishnu. No one giving up life in water or fire attains such a goal. О god Brahma neither the person who gives up his body by the Yoga practice nor lie who falls down from a precipice attains that goal. О most excellent one among those who attain good goals, it is the truth that has been uttered by me.

25. Any human being, even if he perpetrates extremely wicked actions, goes to the world of Dharanldhara (Vishnu who holds and supports the Earth). If the man smears his limbs with the fruits of embylic myrobalan and if he has no interest in sweet juices and meals on the Ekadashi day.

26. I have become disappointed because I have no work on the Earth. Hence, I have resorted to your pair of lotuslike feet. О cause of creation, sustenance and dissolution (of the universe) make time propitious for the attainment of fear­lessness on this mere intimation.

But if the reading is sarga-sthiti-ndfa-hetoh as in my text, the verse means.

“O Lord, who grant immunity from fear by mere request, fix up the time for attaining creation, sustenance and destruction.

27. May not the sinful men be devoid of restraint through my Bhutaganas (attendants). Let them be chained or tied with ropes. Let them come near me and be under my control.

28. The path oppressed by the heat of the sun is broken because crowds of people are being released very quickly at the hands of Vishnu’s attendants from the hell Kumbhl. They go to the splendid abode of the lord who is greater than the greatest.

 

CHAPTER FIVE

The lamentation of Tama

Tama continued:

1. The path of the discus-bearing lord has been furnish­ed and rubbed, О deity worshipped by the three worlds, by men who pass through it without break.

2. О Lord of the Universe, I consider the world of Vishnu to be infinite in magnitude, since it is not filled with the floods of people with all living beings cropping up like lotuses.

3-4. О Pitamaha, (Grandsire cf the universe) people adhering to their duties, people following other men’s duties, pure people and impure people, every one observes fast on the day of Vishnu and goes to the world of Vishnu, at the behest of the king. The entire world is accommodated only in the resi­dence of Madhava. This king is hence our great enemy. He is particularly your enemy as well.

5. О Lord of the worlds, undoubtedly he must be curbed and restrained. For the last one thousand years, he has ruled over the sphere of the world.

6-8a. Immeasurable number of persons have been taken over by him to the world beloved of Hari. They were enabled to ride Garu<jbi. They were given forms having four arms; they were neatly clad in yellow garments; they were garlanded and smeared with sweet-smelling unguents. If he continues to abide by the holy rite of Ekadashi, О Lord of Devas, this beloved devotee of Vishnu will take the entire world to the region of Vishnu free from ailments.

8b-9. This staff of justice and this cloth (the scroll recording details of acts of omission and commission of men) have been released by your feet (i.e. by you). My incompar­able guardianship of the world has been nullified by that king Rukmangada. Blessed is that lady who has borne him.

10. If the son is superior to others in good qualities, he becomes competent to destroy the miseries of his mother. Of what avail is a child that is born, if it brings distress to its mother?

11. If the son does not harass his enemies like the sun in the month of Jyestha, the labour pain of the mother has gone in vain. О Lord, she is one having a bad son.

12-13a. That son is called the ailment or diseased part from the mother’s womb born on this earth, if his fame does not shine like the lightning among the clouds, the son who does not uplift his father’s side through learning or strength.

13b-16. The son who is deprived of virtue, wealth and love, though born on the Earth is only an ailment in the belly of his mother. His life is futile. О Brahma, there is undoubtedly one heroic mother — the lady from whom is born Rukmangada for the purpose of erasing my writings. Such a thing as this has never been accomplished by any king. О Lord of the Universe, even in the Puranas (or even since ancient times) this wiping off of the cloth has not been heard of. Seeing this king adhering to his service to Hari, proclaiming aloud by means of drum and destroying the path leading to my mansion, I cannot continue to be alive.

 

CHAPTER SIX

God Brahma's Reply

Brahma said:

1. What surprising thing has been seen by you? Why do your feel distressed? Distress at the good points in others is an agony that lasts till death.

2. О Sauri (Son of the Sun), how does a man not attain the highest region by observing fast on the day of the Lord, the mere utterance of whose name enables one to attain the same?

3. A single bow offered to Kfsna is on a par with the sacred final (Avabhrtha) ablutions in ten horse-sacrifices. Moreover, the person who performs ten horse-sacrifices may be reborn in this Samsara, but the man who makes obeisance to Krishna is never reborn.

4. If at the tip of one’s tongue the two syllables HARI are present, what has one to do with the holy centres of Kurukshetra, KasI and Vraja?

5-6. A Brahmana who indulges in sexual intercourse with a Caru^ala woman, especially during her monthly course, and eats food cooked in spirituous liquor, can eschew heaps of sins accumulated by perpetrating forbidden acts of eating the forbidden food and of cohabiting with a forbidden woman, if he but remembers Hari at the time of death. He (thereby) attains (Sayujya (complete identity) with Vishnu and is liberated from the bondage of worldly existence.

7. If one gets salvation on uttering his name, how is it that he should not get it by observing fast on his day? He who is sung about in it (fasting period), is the Purusottama who becomes contemplated.

8. Even if he were to utter the name of Lord Janardana sportingly or listens to it, a man acquires equality with the waters of Ganga in regard to sanctity and meritoriousness.

9. Purusottama, the Sovereign Lord of the worlds, is the cause of our birth. How can a wicked-minded fellow (like you) chastise the person who observes fast on his (Vishnu’s) day?

10. That you have not been ground down into powder, that you have not been tightly bound by them, is due to the honour bestowed on us. You are not trying to understand the real point from me.

11. The employee who does not know the most excellent and loyal devotees of the king on the Earth is subjected to arduous exertion and is again kept captive by them.

12. Persons favourite with the king should not be appre­hended as culprits by an employee (a servant of a king). Achieving their objects through the favour of the master, they may get the employee dismissed.

13. Similar is the position of the sinners who bow down to Janardana. How will you restrain them out of foolhardiness,

0 son of Bhaskara?

14. О son of Divakara (Sun-god), О son of Bhaskara

1 may help you with the devotee of Shiva or Bhaskara (Sun-god) or my own devotees, but never with the devotees of Hari.

15. Purusottama is the Primordial deity among all Devas.

16. Restraining the devotees of Madhusudana (God Vishnu) is not proper even if they fraudulently observe the holy rite of Ekadashi during the lunar fortnight.

17-18. If they have slighted you, I cannot help you. О son of the Sun, if any help is rendered to you that will be injustice to me. It may even destroy my body. There may even be reversion from the post of Brahma that is attained through high merit which I have achieved during the course of my life in the company of Vishnu’s devotees.

 

CHAPTER SEVEN

The statement of Brahma

Tama submitted:

l-2a. Dear grand-sire, in bowing clown al the feet of the Veda, the benefit has been achieved by ше. О Lord of the Universe, I shall not go again and join my duties while the king called Rukmarigada is ruling over the world.

2b-3. О excellent one among the deities, if when the day of Hari arrives, you are able to shake him from his courageous resolve, I shall be your servant. О Lord, he is my great foe. My cloth (account of merits and sins) has been rubbed (and erased) by him.

4. By making him take his food on the day of Krishna (i.c. Ekadashi), I shall feel as if I have accomplished all my objects like a person who has offered balls of lice to the manes at Gaya.

5. From today onwards, those persons cannot be rest­rained by me — those persons by whom Hari, the Lord of the Devas, is remembered or eulogised or by whom the fast is under­taken on his day.

6. Those men who burst into ejaculation, even frau- dnlently, with the word ‘Hari’, are liberated from the path leading to the mother’s womb. They are clever people. They do not enter the sphere of writing on my cloth (of virtue and sins). They are worthy of being bowed down to by the excellent groups of heaven-walkers (i.c. gods).

Sauti said:

7. In connection with the affair (problem) of the son of Vivasvan (i.e. Yarna), the Kusa-emblemed god Brahma had a desire to do something in his honour. He therefore pondered thus.

8-9. The Lord, adorned by the Bhiitas (living beings) pondered for a moment. The omnipresent Lord thereafter assumed a form that would terrify all living beings. He, there­after, procreated therein a young woman who fascinated the worlds. That gentle lady, mentally created by him, the most excellent of all beautiful women, appeared splendid.

10-11. Fully bedecked in all ornaments, she stood in front of him. On seeing her fully endowed with the wealth of beauty, he (Brahma) spoke to his own people who being deluded by lust for her, were ogling at her. Brahma closed his eyes for fear of committing a sinful offence.

12-13. He who looks with lustful eyes or thinks about with lascivious mind, at one’s own mother, or daughter, daughter-in-law or brother’s wife, preceptor’s wife or the king’s wife falls into the terrible hell; by thinking about a Candala woman also, the man falls into a hell.

14. The man who becomes perturbed on seeing these young women, loses all his merits acquired in the course of various births. His merits thus become futile but not otherwise.

15. If he indulges in sexual intercourse with them, ten thousand merits of his are wasted away. As the merit goes on diminishing he becomes more and more sinful and eventually he is born as a rock-rat.

16-17. Hence no intelligent man should think about them or see them with lustful eyes. Once the sons have attained their twelfth year, they must not stroke the feet of even their mother. The mother should not get herself applied with oil over her body by sons who have reached the age of youth then. A clever son may engage his mother whose age is more than sixty, in anointing his body with oil.

18. Whether an old man ora young man, no one shall ask his daughter-in-law to massage his feet. It is proclaimed that both of them will fall into the Raurava hell full of burning coal.

19-20. О king, the daughter-in-law who shows her uncovered limbs to her father-in-law shall be knocked and kicked and will be eaten by worms therein in the hell. The same goal awaits that sinful man who gets his feet cleaned by the hands of his daughter-in-law or makes her bathe him or smear oil over him. In the hell, he shall be eaten by worms with needlelike snouts and black faces, for a period of one full Kalpa.

21. Hence no man shall glance at other’s women, or one’s own daughter or daughter-in-law with lustful eyes and thoughts. Immediately the man falls or incurs sins.

22-23. It was because he thought over like this that he looked at her, with a subtle, penetrating view-point. It is nothing but a mere skeleton (lit. cage) of bones covered with flesh and skin that appears a face, lofty, circular and splendid. The shining eyes seen present in women comprise suet and flesh.

24. The extremely protruding mass of flesh has been piled up over the breasts. The three folds of skin on the upper part of the belly (which are regarded as a mask of beauty) show lesser (distribution of) flesh.

25. In the buttocks again, more flesh has been stacked. This is the passage for urine. It is a private part, of which the three worlds are enamoured.

26. It is joined with the Apana wind (i.e. this wind functions there). It is always vile (with bad odour) and contemptible always. More flesh is heaped up than the swollen bellows in the part of the buttocks.

27. Just as a log of wood is sawn into two (half way through), so also is the region of shanks (thighs?). It (the body) is filled with semen, flesh, bone, fat and marrow. How can it be beautiful?

28. What is there by way of essence, in the body of men wherein the main constituents are flesh, fat and marrow? Tell me which man will be enamoured of the body, nourished and grown plump by means of faeces, urine and other dirts.

29. Viriftci (God Brahma) pondered thus, after seeing everything with his vision of knowledge. He took courage and spoke to that lady whose gait was like that of a female elephant.

30. “O fair-complexioned lady, since you have been created by me mentally you have become a lady of beautiful limbs, competent to madden the minds of men.”

31-33a. Then she bowed to the fourfaced God and said: “O Lord, see the entire universe consisting of the mobile and immobile beings deluded and falling unto senselessness. It includes even the Yogins who are totally sinless. О lotus-born deity, keeping you in the beginning (inclusive of you), there is no man in the three worlds who does not get agitated and perturbed on seeing me.

33b-34. Boasting about oneself should not be indulged in by one who wishes for one's own auspicious welfare. Even an extremely pure man falls into hell due to selfpraise. Still, О Brahma, the glorification or self-praise must be stated to achieve some special end.

35. О Brahma, indeed, it must be to make some one excited and perturbed that I have been created by you. О Lord of the Universe, command me. Mention who he is. I shall definitely make him excited.

36-37. О Lord, on seeing me even a mountain becomes infatuated. What then of an ordinary man endowed with consciousness who inhales and exhales? The description of the powerful impact of a woman’s glance is described in the Puranas. It causes madness in men and is destructive of all holy vows and rites difficult to be observed.

38. Till then the man treads the path of the good, till then the man has perfect control over his sense organs, till then he retains his humility and sense of shame, till the shaft-like glances of dalliance-minded damsels pierce his heart and destroy his fortitude. The shafts that are discharged fiom the well-drawn bow of the eye-brow, the eyes having blue lashes, reach up to the cars.1

39. Fie upon the poetry of that stupid ill-informed poet who equates the face of a lady to the moon. Is there any of these in the moon — viz. the knittingof the eyebrow, the side- glances expressing the wounding look, fury, pleasure and laughter?

40. О Lord, only when it is drunk does the spirituous liquor cause delusion in the mind of a clever man. But a youth­ful maiden excites delusion even when she is seen or remembered by a man. So she is more powerful than the spirituous liquor.

1. Just as an archer bends his bow stretching the bow-string up to his car and discharges the arrow which pierces the heart of the enemy, the shaft-like glances are discharged from the bow-like bent eye-brows of women with blue eye-lashes — eyes which are long upto the ears. Such longish eyes, were traditionally regarded beautiful.

41. О great grand sire of the world I have been created by you for fascinating men. Command me. Who is it? I shall enchant even the three worlds.

Brahma said:

42. О Lady with thighs like the trunk of an elephant, О fortunate one with the gait like that of an elephant in rut, the truth has been expressed by you. There is nothing that cannot be achieved by you in the three worlds.

43. О fair-complexioned lady, you are defiling even my mind also although I control and steady it by means of the goad of perfect knowledge.

44. Such being your charm how then will you not captivate the minds of people? О large-eyed lady, truly your beauty of form is seductive.

45. I find that the entire Universe including the immor­tal being, is motionless. О excellent-faced lady, achieve that for which you have been created.

46. О auspicious lady, on the earth, in the city of Vidisa1 there is a king named Rukmaiigada whose wife Sandhyavall is comparable to you in beauty.2

47. His son Dharmahgada was born of her. The son surpasses the father. He is endowed with the strength of a hundred elephants. He is like the sun in exploits.

1. A few years back (under the British) it was called Bhilsa. Now its old name Vidisa has been adopted. In the NP- here and in the Devi Purfya (Ch. 76) it is called Vidisa.

2. VV. 46-73 contain instructions and guidance given by god Brahmi to Mohini how to make king Rukmangada break his Ekadashi Vrata and thereby make people go to the region of Yama. This plot in a nutshell is developed in details in subsequent chapters. The denouement is very interesting.

48-52. In forbearance he is equal to the Earth; in pro­fundity he is comparable to the ocean; like the fire, he shines with his brilliance, he is comparable to Vaivasvata Yama, God of Death in fury; he is like Bali in munificence; he is comparable to the wind god in mobility; in gentleness he is equal to the moon; he is as handsome as Manmatha the god of love; the prince is equal to Jiva (Brhaspati) and Bhargava (Sukra) (preceptors of Devas and Daityas) in statesmanship. О fair-faced lady, the entire Jambiidvlpa alone is enjoyed by his father (Rukmangada). But the other Dvipas (continents) are conquered by Dharmangada. He has not yet known the thrill of a contact with a youthful maiden due to his bashfulness. Thousands of women come to him of their own accord but they are avoided by him. He does not move astray from his pledged word.

53. О fortunate lady with sweet smiles, in his father’s house three hundred mothers look upon him equally without any difference in their affection, О lady with gold-like complexion!

54. О woman of beautiful limbs! On the excellent mount Mandara, approach the King to whom Dharma is of prominent importance and who is adorned with the jewel of a son.

55. The king carried away to that place by his horse will stay there enamoured of your song, О woman of beautiful limbs, even leaving off his horse.

56-57. Climbing on to the top of the mountain he will come into contact with you. On meeting the king there, О gentle lady, you must say thus: — О king, undoubtedly, I will become your wife. But О lord, whatever Isay must be definitely carried out by you.

58-62. Enamoured of your beauty the king will promise it to you. Thereupon, after a few days have elapsed you shall hold him by the right hand with imprecations. О woman of lovely eye­brows and charming limbs, when the king appears to be raptu­rously eager for cohabitation with you, you shall laughingly remind the king of his earlier words: “O King, you have sworn that you will abide by my word. Hence, О king, keep your promise. I think the time has now come for the same.” When this is said by you, the king will certainly say thus on account of the high value and importance of the promise. “There is no doubt about it, I shall keep it. Tell me what shall I give you?” When he replies thus, О auspicious fair-faced lady, Ruk- mangada, the king and father of Dharmangada must be addressed thus by you.

63-68a. “Never should the fast be observed on the Ekadashi day of Hari. О my darling, your fast is St hindrance to my sexual intercourse with you. He who does not attend to his own wife who is charming and who is endowed with youthful virility, he who expects another opportunity (i.e. he who post­pones) is a man of wicked actions. Certainly, he goes to hell. Due to your fasting, I am abandoned by you for three nights. But actually I am incapable of staying even a moment without you. When the time of Sraddha has come and the Brahmanas sit and wait (for the performance), if the wife solicits the husband for cohabitation, she must be enjoyed at the very same time.”

О woman of sweet limbs, even after being urged thus, if the king does not carry out your request, you shall say thus thereafter:

68b-69. “O King if you do not abandon your fast on the day of Hari, cut off the head of your own son Dharmangada with an excellent sword, and place it on my lap.

70. О king if you do not carry out this loving wish of mine, you shall become deficient in virtue, merits and you will undoubtedly fall into hell.”

71-72. О excellent lady, if, on hearing your words, he does not injure his son who is like his own vital breath unto him, he shall pay heed to the advice of the Brahmanas and shall take food on the day of Ekadasl. Thereupon, the people will go near Yama as before after being tied with ropes by the attendants. Taking the writing (of Chitragupta) as authority, there will be persons occupying hell. Thus what you do will be splendid.

73. Or if the glorious king, abiding by the promise, really kills his son he will go to the region of Padmanabha, that is worthy of being worshipped by the immortal beings wholly.

 

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