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(Pativrata-mahatmya Parva Continued)
"Markandeya said, 'Having pondered over
these words (of Narada) about his daughter's marriage, the king began to make
arrangements about the nuptials. And summoning all the old Brahmanas, and
Ritwijas together with the priests, he set out with his daughter on an
auspicious day. And arriving at the asylum of Dyumatsena in the sacred forest,
the king approached the royal sage on foot, accompanied by the twice-born ones.
And there he beheld the blind monarch of great wisdom seated on a cushion of
Kusa grass spread under Sala tree. And after duly reverencing the royal sage,
the king in an humble speech introduced himself. Thereupon, offering him the
Arghya, a seat, and a cow, the monarch asked his royal guest,--Wherefore is
this visit?--Thus addressed the king disclosed everything about his intentions
and purpose with reference to Satyavan. And Aswapati said, 'O royal sage, this
beautiful girl is my daughter named Savitri. O thou versed in morality, do
thou, agreeably to the customs of our order, take her from me as thy
daughter-in-law!' Hearing these words, Dyumatsena said, 'Deprived of kingdom,
and taking up our abode in the woods, we are engaged in the practice of virtue
as ascetics with regulated lives. Unworthy of a forest life, how will thy
daughter, living in the sylvan asylum, bear this hardship?' Aswapati said,
'When my daughter knoweth, as well as myself, that happiness and misery come
and go (without either being stationary), such words as these are not fit to be
used towards one like me! O king, I have come hither, having made up my mind! I
have bowed to thee from friendship; it behoveth thee not, therefore, to destroy
my hope! It behoveth thee not, also, to disregard me who, moved by love, have
come to thee! Thou art my equal and fit for an alliance with me, as indeed, I
am thy equal and fit for alliance with thee! Do thou, therefore, accept my
daughter for thy daughter-in-law and the wife of the good Satyavan!' Hearing
these words Dyumatsena said, 'Formerly I had desired an alliance with thee. But
I hesitated, being subsequently deprived of my kingdom. Let this wish,
therefore, that I had formerly entertained, be accomplished this very day. Thou
art, indeed, a welcome guest to me!'
"Then summoning all the twice-born ones
residing in the hermitages of that forest, the two kings caused the union to
take place with due rites. And having bestowed his daughter with suitable robes
and ornaments, Aswapati went back to his abode in great joy. And Satyavan,
having obtained a wife possessed of every accomplishment, became highly glad,
while she also rejoiced exceedingly upon having gained the husband after her
own heart. And when her father had departed, she put off all her ornaments, and
clad herself in barks and cloths dyed in red. And by her services and virtues,
her tenderness and self-denial, and by her agreeable offices unto all, she
pleased everybody. And she gratified her mother-in-law by attending to her
person and by covering her with robes and ornaments. And she gratified her
father-in-law by worshipping him as a god and controlling her speech. And she
pleased her husband by her honeyed speeches, her skill in every kind of work,
the evenness of her temper, and by the indications of her love in private. And
thus, O Bharata, living in the asylum of those pious dwellers of the forest,
they continued for some time to practise ascetic austerities. But the words
spoken by Narada were present night and day in the mind of the sorrowful
Savitri.'"
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