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Another account of how Mayūra became afflicted with leprosy
as the result of his daughter's curse is given by Ramacandrakavi
in his commentary on the Süryaśataka. A portion of the text of
this commentary is printed in the Descriptive Catalogue of the
Skt. MSS in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library,
Madras, vol. 19, p. 7622, no. 11318, Madras, 1915. The account
of the incident is as follows:---
atra khalu deśantarac cirasamaydgatena svasutam ajanata tatrabhavata
mayüranamna kavina snānärtham agata să
enīdṛśaḥ panipuțe niruddha venir vireje śayanotthitayaḥ
sarojakośad iva nissaranti śreni ghanibhaya madhuvratānām
ity anena varnita । tataḥ sa 'pi ruşa pitaram ajānati kruddha satī janman-
taradhigatakarmavipäkam enam kuşthi bhaveti śaśapa । tataḥ śvetakuşth-
angaḥ so 'pi-
hutāśanad bhutim icchej jñānam icchen maheśvarāt
arogyam bhaskarad icchen mokşam icchej janārdanāt
iti smrteḥ sadyaḥ śivetarakşataye talavṛkşagrabaddhaśatarañjumayafikyo-
pari sthitva pratiślokam ekdikarañjukṛntanena śribhagavantam süryam
ebhir jambhetyādistavāiḥ stutvā śvetakuşṭhād vimukta iti janaśrutiḥ
Then indeed she, having come for the purpose of ceremonial ablution,
was described in the following [verse] by his Honor the poet, Mayura by
name, who did not recognize his own daughter, [since] he had come, after
a long time, from a foreign country: -
Her braid, held fast in the hollow of the hand of [this] deer-eyed [maiden]
who has risen from her bed,
Appears like a dense swarm of bees issuing from the calyx of a lotus.
Then she, being angry, and not recognizing her father because of her
rage, cursed that [father] (who thus reached the result of his actions
in a previous existence), saying: "Become a leper." Then he, his body
[afflicted] with white leprosy, also said, quoting from sacred lore: -
One should desire prosperity from Agni, one should desire knowledge from
Siva,
One should request of Surya freedom from disease, and from Vişņu one
should ask emancipation.
[Then] at once, for the removal of his unpropitious [affliction], he
placed himself in a swing made of a hundred ropes and attached to the
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Another account of how Mayūra became afflicted with leprosy
as the result of his daughter's curse is given by Ramacandrakavi
in his commentary on the Süryaśataka. A portion of the text of
this commentary is printed in the Descriptive Catalogue of the
Skt. MSS in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library,
Madras, vol. 19, p. 7622, no. 11318, Madras, 1915. The account
of the incident is as follows:---
atra khalu deśantarac cirasamaydgatena svasutam ajanata tatrabhavata
mayüranamna kavina snānärtham agata să
enīdṛśaḥ panipuțe niruddha venir vireje śayanotthitayaḥ
sarojakośad iva nissaranti śreni ghanibhaya madhuvratānām
ity anena varnita । tataḥ sa 'pi ruşa pitaram ajānati kruddha satī janman-
taradhigatakarmavipäkam enam kuşthi bhaveti śaśapa । tataḥ śvetakuşth-
angaḥ so 'pi-
hutāśanad bhutim icchej jñānam icchen maheśvarāt
arogyam bhaskarad icchen mokşam icchej janārdanāt
iti smrteḥ sadyaḥ śivetarakşataye talavṛkşagrabaddhaśatarañjumayafikyo-
pari sthitva pratiślokam ekdikarañjukṛntanena śribhagavantam süryam
ebhir jambhetyādistavāiḥ stutvā śvetakuşṭhād vimukta iti janaśrutiḥ
Then indeed she, having come for the purpose of ceremonial ablution,
was described in the following [verse] by his Honor the poet, Mayura by
name, who did not recognize his own daughter, [since] he had come, after
a long time, from a foreign country: -
Her braid, held fast in the hollow of the hand of [this] deer-eyed [maiden]
who has risen from her bed,
Appears like a dense swarm of bees issuing from the calyx of a lotus.
Then she, being angry, and not recognizing her father because of her
rage, cursed that [father] (who thus reached the result of his actions
in a previous existence), saying: "Become a leper." Then he, his body
[afflicted] with white leprosy, also said, quoting from sacred lore: -
One should desire prosperity from Agni, one should desire knowledge from
Siva,
One should request of Surya freedom from disease, and from Vişņu one
should ask emancipation.
[Then] at once, for the removal of his unpropitious [affliction], he
placed himself in a swing made of a hundred ropes and attached to the
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