SECTION –CXII
(Tirtha-yatra Parva Continued)
'Rishyasringa said, 'Here came to-day a religious
student with a mass of hair on his head. And he was neither short nor tall. And
he was of a spirited look and a golden complexion, and endued with eye large as
lotuses; and he was shining and graceful as a god. And rich was his beauty
blazing like the Sun; and he was exceedingly fair with eyes graceful and black.
And his twisted hair was blue-black and neat and long and of a fragrant scent
and tied up with strings of gold. A beautiful ornament was shining on his neck
which looked like lightning in the sky. And under the throat he had two balls
of flesh without a single hair upon them and of an exceedingly beautiful form.
And his waist was slender to a degree and his navel neat; and smooth also was
the region about his ribs. Then again there shone a golden string from under
his cloth, just like this waist-string of mine. And there was something on his
feet of a wonderful shape which give forth a jingling sound. Upon his wrists
likewise was tied a pair of ornaments that made a similar sound and looked just
like this rosary here. And when he walked, his ornaments uttered a jingling
sound like those uttered by delighted ganders upon a sheet of water. And he had
on his person garments of a wonderful make; these clothes of mine are by no
means beautiful like those. And his face was wonderful to behold; and his voice
was calculated to gladden the heart; and his speech was pleasant like the song
of the male blackbird. And while listening to the same I felt touched to my
inmost soul. And as a forest in the midst of the vernal season, assumes a grace
only when it is swept over by the breeze, so, O father! he of an excellent and
pure smell looks beautiful when fanned by the air. And his mass of hair is
neatly tied up and remains adhering to the head and forehead evenly sundered in
two. And his two eyes seemed to be covered with wonderful Chakravaka birds of
an exceedingly beautiful form. And he carried upon his right palm a wonderful
globur fruit, which reaches the ground and again and again leaps up to the sky
in a strange way. And he beats it and turns himself round and whirls like a
tree moved by the breeze. And when I looked at him, O father! he seemed to be a
son of the celestials, and my joy was extreme, and my pleasure unbounded. And
he clasped my body, took hold of my matted hair, and bent down my mouth, and,
mingling his mouth with my own, uttered a sound that was exceedingly pleasant.
And he doth not care for water for washing his feet, nor for those fruits
offered by me; and he told me that such was the religious observance practised
by him. And he gave unto me a number of fruits. Those fruits were tasteful unto
me: these here are not equal to them in taste. They have not got any rind nor
any stone within them, like these. And he of a noble form gave me to drink
water of an exceedingly fine flavour; and having drunk it, I experienced great
pleasu e; and the ground seemed to be moving under my feet. And these are the
garlands beautiful and fragrant and twined with silken threads that belong to
him. And he, bright with fervent piety, having scattered these garlands here,
went back to his own hermitage. His departure hath saddened my heart; and my
frame seems to be in a burning sensation! And my desire is to go to him as soon
as I can, and to have him every day walk about here. O father, let me this very
moment go to him. Pray, what is that religious observance which is being
practised by him. As he of a noble piety is practising penances, so I am
desirous to live the same life with him. My heart is yearning after similar
observances My soul will be in torment if I see him not,'"
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