TALES FROM THE HINDU DRAMATISTS - Awaken Video
TALES FROM THE HINDU DRAMATISTS - Awaken Video
TALES FROM THE HINDU DRAMATISTS - Awaken Video
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Siva observes, "How! would you impose upon me with falsehoods? Daksha is<br />
not your father, nor is his wife your mother, you are the father of all<br />
things, the mother of the universe. Those versed in the _Vedas_ declare<br />
you male and female too."<br />
In the end, she is allowed to follow her own inclinations.<br />
She comes to her father, and vainly endeavours to impress him with<br />
respect for her husband. She quits him to throw herself into the<br />
sacrificial fire.<br />
Nareda then appears and tells Daksha to prepare for the consequences of<br />
his folly. Virabhadra, Siva's attendant, then enters and plays some<br />
antics. Shaking the earth with his tread, and filling space with his<br />
extended arms, he rolls his eyes in wrath. Some of the gods he casts on<br />
the ground and tramples on them; he knocks out the teeth of some with<br />
his fists, plucks out the beards of some, and cuts off the ears, arms,<br />
and noses of others; he smites some, and he tosses others into the<br />
sacrificial fire. He decapitates the cause of his master's indignation,<br />
the haughty Daksha.<br />
MRIGANKALEKHA.<br />
Mrigankalekha is the daughter of the king of Kamarupa or Assam: she is<br />
beheld by Karpuratilaka, the king of Kalinga, whilst hunting, and the<br />
parties are mutually enamoured.<br />
The obstacle to their union is the love of Sankhapala, a demon, to<br />
oppose whose supernatural powers, Ratnachura, the minister of the king<br />
of Kalinga, who alone is aware of the circumstance, invites to the<br />
palace a benevolent magician, Siddhayogini, and Mrigankalekha is also<br />
lodged in the palace as the friend of the queen Vilasavati.<br />
Notwithstanding these precautions, she is carried off by Sankhapala to<br />
the temple of Kali, which is surrounded by goblins. During the Raja's<br />
peregrinations in his love-frenzy, he passes disconsolate through a wood<br />
in which he inquires of different animals if they have seen his<br />
mistress.<br />
He now comes to the temple, rescues her, and kills Sankhapala. He is<br />
then united to Mrigankalekha in the presence of her father and brother,<br />
and with the consent of the queen. Before the conclusion of the marriage<br />
rite, he kills also the brother of Sankhapala, who comes to revenge him<br />
in the form of a wild elephant.<br />
The marriage is thus effected through the secret contrivance of the<br />
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