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THE CURSES OF THE GODDESS 137
other Ganas, named Pingesvara and Guhesvara, when they
saw that, interchanged glances, and a smile passed over their
faces. And when the goddess saw them smiling she was
angry in her heart, and she cast her eyes hither and thither,
to see what they were laughing at in this unseemly manner.
And then she saw that Chandralekha and Manipushpesvara
were looking lovingly in one another's faces.
Then the goddess, who was quite distracted with the
sorrow of separation, was angry, and said :
" These young
people have done well to look lovingly * at one another in the
absence of the god, and these two mirthful people have done
well to laugh when they saw their glances : so let this lover
and maiden, who are blinded with passion, fall into a human
birth ; and there the disrespectful pair shall be man and wife ;
but these unseasonable laughers shall endure many miseries
on the earth ; they shall be first poor Brahmans, and then 2
Brahman-Rakshasas, and then Pisachas, and after that
Chandalas, and then robbers, and then bob-tailed dogs, and
then they shall be various kinds of birds shall these Ganas
who offended by laughing ; for their minds were unclouded
when they were guilty of this disrespectful conduct."
When the goddess had uttered this command, a Gana of
the name of Dhurjata said :
" Goddess, this is very unjust ;
these excellent Ganas do not deserve so severe a curse, for a
very small offence." When the goddess heard that she said
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in her wrath to Dhurjata also : Fall thou also, great sir,
that knowest not thy place, into a mortal womb." When
the goddess had inflicted these tremendous curses, the female
warder, Jaya, the mother of Chandralekha, clung to her feet,
and addressed this petition to her :
" Withdraw thy anger,
goddess ; appoint an end to the curse of this daughter of
mine, and of these thy own servants, that have through
ignorance committed sin." When Parvati had been thus
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entreated by her warder, Jaya, she said : When all these,
owing to their having obtained insight, shall in course of
1 It may possibly mean "acted a love drama." I cannot find the sense
I have assigned to it in any dictionary.
2 Before anu we should, with the India Office MSS., insert tad. Monier
Williams explains Brahman- Rakshasa as a "fiend of the Brahmanical class."