SECTION –CCCVI
(Pativrata-mahatmya Parva Continued)
Vaisampayana said, "It was, O lord of earth,
on the first day of the lighted fortnight during the tenth month of the year
that Pritha conceived a son like the lord himself of the stars in the
firmament. And that damsel of excellent hips from fear of her friends,
concealed her conception, so that no one knew her condition. And as the damsel
lived entirely in the apartments assigned to the maidens and carefully
concealed her condition, no one except her nurse knew the truth. And in due
time that beauteous maiden, by the grace of deity, brought forth a son
resembling a very god. And even like his father, the child was equipped in a
coat of mail, and decked with brilliant ear-rings. And he was possessed of
leonine eyes and shoulders like those of a bull. And no sooner was the
beauteous girl delivered of a child, then she consulted with her nurse and
placed the infant in a commodious and smooth box made of wicker work and spread
over with soft sheets and furnished with a costly pillow. And its surface was
laid over with wax, and it was encased in a rich cover. And with tears in her
eyes, she carried the infant to the river Aswa, and consigned the basket to its
waters. And although she knew it to be improper for an unmarried girl to bear
offspring, yet from parental affection, O foremost of kings, she wept
piteously. Do thou listen to the words Kunti weepingly uttered, while
consigning the box to the waters of the river Aswa, 'O child, may good betide
thee at the hands of all that inhabit the land, the water, the sky, and the
celestial regions. May all thy paths be auspicious! May no one obstruct thy
way! And, O son, may all that come across thee have their hearts divested of
hostility towards thee: And may that lord of waters, Varuna. protect thee in
water! And may the deity that rangeth the skies completely protect thee in the
sky. And may, O son, that best of those that impart heat, viz., Surya, thy father,
and from whom I have obtained thee as ordained by Destiny, protect thee
everywhere! And may the Adityas and the Vasus, the Rudras and the Sadhyas, the
Viswadevas and the Maruts, and the cardinal points with the great Indra and the
regents presiding over them, and, indeed, all the celestials, protect thee in
every place! Even in foreign lands I shall be able to recognise thee by this
mail of thine! Surely, thy sire, O son, the divine Surya possessed of the
wealth of splendour, is blessed, for he will with his celestial sight behold
thee going down the current! Blessed also is that lady who will, O thou that
are begotten by a god, take thee for her son, and who will give thee suck when
thou art thirsty! And what a lucky dream hath been dreamt by her that will
adopt thee for her son, thee that is endued with solar splendour, and furnished
with celestial mail, and adorned with celestial ear-rings, thee that hast
expansive eyes resembling lotuses, a complexion bright as burnished copper or
lotus leaves, a fair forehead, and hair ending in beautiful curls! O son, she
that will behold thee crawl on the ground, begrimed with dust, and sweetly
uttering inarticulate words, is surely blessed! And she also, O son, that will
behold thee arrive at thy youthful prime like maned lion born in Himalayan
forests, is surely blessed!'"
"O king, having thus bewailed long and
piteously, Pritha laid the basket on the waters of the river Aswa. And the
lotus-eyed damsel, afflicted with grief on account of her son and weeping
bitterly, with her nurse cast the basket at dead of night, and though desirous
of beholding her son often and again, returned, O monarch, to the palate,
fearing lest her father should come to know of what had happened. Meanwhile,
the basket floated from the river Aswa to the river Charmanwati, and from the
Charmanwati it passed to the Yamuna, and so on to the Ganga. And carried by the
waves of the Ganga, the child contained in the basket came to the city of
Champa ruled by a person of the Suta tribe. Indeed, the excellent coat of mail
and those ear-rings made of Amrita that were born with his body, as also the
ordinance of Destiny, kept the child alive."
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