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with the prince. The festivities ended at sunset. The prince
returned home and passed a sleepless night, sad at the thought
that he could not treat the princess, his beloved in former life,
om, and
even with formal courtesy, much less clasp her to his bos:
that he could not marry her without the consent of her parents
and the priest. Next morning he said to Puspodbhava that he
could not bear the pang of separation from his beloved any
longer and that he did not know what to do. Puspodbhava
suggested that since the princess was also pining for
him, it would not be unbecoming of him, if he took the
princess in marriage in defiance of Darpasāra. At this
moment, Bālacandrikā approached the prince and said, My
Lord, the princess is in an extreme state of love-sickness; she
remembers you as her beloved in former life and repents that
she did not treat you as she would when you met her. She
fell in a swoon and I brought her to consciousness and said,
'Princess, your parents will be glad to give you in marriage to
your lover in former birth. Chandavarman will of course
object but we shall bring about a secret union.' 'I have', added
Balacandrika, 'consoled her with these words and I don't
know how you feel.' The prince on hearing this related to her
his equally love-lorn condition and wrote a letter to his beloved
recalling, among other pleasant incidents in former life, her
showing him when he was love-stricken, the star Arundhati,
which, he said, had remained written in bold letters in his
heart. As Bālacandrikā left with the letter, he too started
with Puspodbhava to the garden where he first saw his
beloved.
(Av. Sāra VI. 125-70)
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CHAPTER VII
Story of Somadatta
In the temple at Ujjain the prince and Puspodbhava saw
a man preparing to fast himself to death in the morning.
When they asked him why he was doing so, he said, 'Sir, I
am a Brahman named Vidyeśvara and I belong to Vyāghra-
grāma, a beautiful agrahārain the Chola country. I learnt
from a teacher the Găruḍa mantra which enabled me to acquire
1. Modern Chidambaram where the famous Națarāja shrine
is.
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with the prince. The festivities ended at sunset. The prince
returned home and passed a sleepless night, sad at the thought
that he could not treat the princess, his beloved in former life,
om, and
even with formal courtesy, much less clasp her to his bos:
that he could not marry her without the consent of her parents
and the priest. Next morning he said to Puspodbhava that he
could not bear the pang of separation from his beloved any
longer and that he did not know what to do. Puspodbhava
suggested that since the princess was also pining for
him, it would not be unbecoming of him, if he took the
princess in marriage in defiance of Darpasāra. At this
moment, Bālacandrikā approached the prince and said, My
Lord, the princess is in an extreme state of love-sickness; she
remembers you as her beloved in former life and repents that
she did not treat you as she would when you met her. She
fell in a swoon and I brought her to consciousness and said,
'Princess, your parents will be glad to give you in marriage to
your lover in former birth. Chandavarman will of course
object but we shall bring about a secret union.' 'I have', added
Balacandrika, 'consoled her with these words and I don't
know how you feel.' The prince on hearing this related to her
his equally love-lorn condition and wrote a letter to his beloved
recalling, among other pleasant incidents in former life, her
showing him when he was love-stricken, the star Arundhati,
which, he said, had remained written in bold letters in his
heart. As Bālacandrikā left with the letter, he too started
with Puspodbhava to the garden where he first saw his
beloved.
(Av. Sāra VI. 125-70)
43
CHAPTER VII
Story of Somadatta
In the temple at Ujjain the prince and Puspodbhava saw
a man preparing to fast himself to death in the morning.
When they asked him why he was doing so, he said, 'Sir, I
am a Brahman named Vidyeśvara and I belong to Vyāghra-
grāma, a beautiful agrahārain the Chola country. I learnt
from a teacher the Găruḍa mantra which enabled me to acquire
1. Modern Chidambaram where the famous Națarāja shrine
is.