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to see your daughter with his graeioas eyes, I hare hopes of a
speedy cure for her." The queen -was ovei'joyed at this revelation
and commuuicated it at once to her royal spouse. He
said:—"Lady, if Hamsbniija will cast the devil out of our
daughter and restore her to a sense of shame, we shall fall at
his feet aud accept him as our guru."
In the meanwhile, the Icing intended to give a feast to liia
caste-nicn, the Jainas who ahounded in the country. The queen
however warned her husband thus:— "Lord, thou givesfc a
feast no doubt, but thy castemen, the Jainas, will reject thy
invitation on the score- that thou art wanting in a finger
of thy
hand." " How can they dare refuse a king's invitation 'i"
said the king irritated, and consulted his kinsmen about
it. Tlioy said :— " King, the Turushka ' emperor of Dellii,
captured tliee and thy counti-y ; and set a mark on thee to
show that thou hadst lost thy independence and sovereignty,
by depriving thee of a finger. But our custom does not allow
•us to eat in the house of a finger-less man. Dost thou forget
thou art called Bitti-ihva,, " or the_^»g'ea--Lord ?. We refuse to
eat in thy house." This greatly incensed the king and be
vowed vengeance against them.
The queen approached Bitti-deva and said :— " Lord, why
art thou concerned thus ? What care we for our kinsmen ? Let
US dissociate ovrselves from their community and join the
Vaishnava ranks by becoming disciples of EfLm^nnja. Hast
thou forgotten what our Nambi told us about him ? Aud is
not our mad daughter also to be set right ?" " Well said, we
shall at once send for Esbmsinuja," said Bitti-deva, and sent out
men to invite RSmanuja to his palace. But when the men
delivered their message to KS,manuja, who had camped outside
the town limits, he told
them that he would not plant his foot
in kings' cities. Nambi was there at the time. He rose and.
falling before Efl,m3inuja, pleaded thus :— " Holy Sire, we
beseech thee not to be so determined, but enter the king's hoiise.
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Or Turk, a g^eneral name for all foreign invaders, except ihe Yavauas
aiul the Fcrin-jhecs. Eead A. BartU'g ReligioriS of India P. • 211.
'Coiiverleil inio Sanskrit as I't'fffiafa-deva.