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(Chaitraratha Parva continued)
"Vasishtha continued, 'The Brahmana lady,
thus addressed by them, said, 'Ye children, I have not robbed you of your
eye-sight, nor am I angry with you. This child, however, of the Bhrigu race
hath certainly been angry with you. There is little doubt, ye children, that ye
have been robbed of your sight by that illustrious child whose wrath hath been
kindled at the remembrance of the slaughter of his race. Ye children, while ye
were destroying even the embryos of the Bhrigu race, this child was held by me
in my thigh for a hundred years! And in order that the prosperity of Bhrigu's
race might be restored, the entire Vedas with their branches came unto this one
even while he was in the womb. It is plain that this scion of the Bhrigu race,
enraged at the slaughter of his fathers, desireth to slay you! It is by his
celestial energy that your eyes have been scorched. Therefore, ye children,
pray ye unto this my excellent child born of my thigh. Propitiated by your
homage he may restore your eye-sight.'
"Vasishtha continued, 'Hearing those words
of the Brahmana lady, all these princes addressed the thigh-born child, saying,
'Be propitious!' And the child became propitious unto them. And that best of
Brahmana Rishis, in consequence of his having been born after tearing open his
mother's thigh, came to be known throughout the three worlds by the name of
Aurva (thigh-born). And those princes regaining their eye-sight went away. But
the Muni Aurva of the Bhrigu race resolved upon overcoming the whole world. And
the high-souled Rishi set his heart, O child, upon the destruction of every
creature in the world. And that scion of the Bhrigu race, for paying homage (as
he regarded) unto his slaughtered ancestors, devoted himself to the austerest
of penances with the object of destroying the whole world. And desirous of
gratifying his ancestors, the Rishi afflicted by his severe asceticism the
three worlds with the celestials, the Asuras and human beings. The Pitris,
then, learning what the child of their race was about, all came from their own
region unto the Rishi and addressing him said:
'Aurva, O son, fierce thou hast been in thy
asceticism. Thy power hath been witnessed by us. Be propitious unto the three
worlds. O, control thy wrath. O child, it was not from incapacity that the
Bhrigus of souls under complete control were, all of them, indifferent to their
own destruction at the hands of the murderous Kshatriyas. O child, when we grew
weary of the long periods of life alloted to us, it was then that we desired
our own destruction through the instrumentality of the Kshatriyas. The wealth
that the Bhrigus had placed in their house underground had been placed only
with the object of enraging the Kshatriyas and picking a quarrel with them. O
thou best of Brahmanas, as we were desirous of heaven, of what use could wealth
be to us? The treasurer of heaven (Kuvera) had kept a large treasure for us.
When we found that death could not, by any means, overtake us all, it was then,
O child, that we regarded this as the best means (of compassing our desire).
They who commit suicide never attain to regions that are blessed. Reflecting
upon this, we abstained from self-destruction. That which, therefore thou
desirest to do is not agreeable to us. Restrain thy mind, therefore, from the
sinful act of destroying the whole world. O child, destroy not the Kshatriyas
nor the seven worlds. O, kill this wrath of thine that staineth thy ascetic energy.'"
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