TALES FROM THE HINDU DRAMATISTS - Awaken Video
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_aswamedha_, or horse-sacrifice, for which it was essential that the<br />
steed should have a free range for twelve months, being attended only by<br />
a guard to secure him. This guard had been placed by Pushpamitra under<br />
the command of Agnimitra's son, Vasumitra. Whilst following the victim<br />
along the Indus, a party of Yavana horse attempted to carry off the<br />
courser, but they were encountered by the young prince, and after a<br />
sharp conflict, defeated.<br />
Pushpamitra concludes with inviting his son to come with his family to<br />
complete the sacrifice.<br />
The queen, Dharini, overjoyed with the news of her son's success and<br />
safety, distributes rich presents to all her train and the females of<br />
Agnimitra's establishment, whilst to him she presents Malavika. Iravati<br />
communicates her concurrence in this arrangement, and the Raja obtains a<br />
bride, whom his queens accept as their sister. The difficulty of<br />
conciliating his queens is thus removed. The king now marries Malavika<br />
and all ends happily.<br />
<strong>THE</strong> VIRA CHARITA OR <strong>THE</strong> MAHAVIRA CHARITA<br />
OR<br />
<strong>THE</strong> LIFE OF <strong>THE</strong> GREAT HERO.<br />
Dasaratha, the king of Ayodhya (Oudh), is the father of four sons Rama,<br />
Lakshmana, Bharata and Satrughna. Rama and Lakshmana visit Viswamitra's<br />
hermitage. Kusadhwaja, the king of Sankasya and the brother of Janaka,<br />
the king of Mithila, accompanied by his two nieces, Sita and Urmila,<br />
enters the hermitage of Viswamitra on the borders of the Kausiki (Cosi),<br />
having been invited by the sage to his sacrifice. He is met by the sage<br />
with the two youths Rama and Lakshmana, and the young couples become<br />
mutually enamoured. Meanwhile Ahalya--the cursed wife of Gautama--gets<br />
cleared of her guilt through the purifying influence of Rama.<br />
A messenger from Ravana, the demon king of Lanka, arrives, who has<br />
followed them from Mithila, and comes to demand Sita as a wife for his<br />
master.<br />
They are further disturbed by Taraka, a female fiend, the daughter of<br />
Suketu, wife of Sunda and mother of Maricha. Rama, by command of<br />
Viswamitra slays her. Viswamitra is exceedingly pleased with the deed<br />
and invokes and gives to Rama the heavenly weapons with all their<br />
secrets of discharge and dissolution. The sage recommends Kusadhwaja to<br />
invite the bow of Siva for Rama's present trial, and consequent<br />
obtaining of Sita. The bow arrives, self-conveyed, being, as the weapon<br />
of so great a deity, pregnant with intelligence. Rama snaps it asunder,<br />
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