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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
disappearance from the field of the enemies hosts,
king Viduratha returned with a broken heart along
with the shattered remnants of his army to his own
palace. Whilst he rested upstairs in sleep, Saraswati
and Lila came up to where he lay. Being quite
refreshed by their Tejas (radiant effulgence) which
was like the nectary rays of the moon, his lotus-like
eyes began to bloom and beheld, before him, these
two ladies whom he saluted and eulogised.
Then in order to acquaint Lila with the glorious
lineage of this race, Saraswati willed that the
minister lying hard by the king should wake up
from his deep sleep. Instantaneously, the minister
shook off his lethargy and seeing Saraswati saluted
her. At which she asked him to trace from the
beginning, the history of the king s family. The
minister then began thus In the race of Manu
Vaivasvata 34, the most esteemed of kings, there
was born a king of the name of Kumbaratha (or
Kundharatha) who had a son Bhadraratha, the
king of kings. The last had in his turn Akhilaratha
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The Manu of this Manwantara or Round
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