Sulabha
Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 06 Mar 2010 09:32 and updated at 06 Mar 2010 09:32
Mahabharata: 18 Parvas
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Mbh.1.65.3277 | The eldest of them all was Viprachitti of great fame Samvara, and Namuchi and Pauloman; Asiloman, and Kesi and Durjaya; Ayahsiras, Aswasiras, and the powerful Aswasanku; also Gaganamardhan, and Vegavat, and he called Ketumat; Swarbhanu, Aswa, Aswapati, Vrishaparvan, and then Ajaka; and Aswagriva, and Sukshama, and Tuhunda of great strength, Ekapada, and Ekachakra, Virupaksha, Mahodara, and Nichandra, and Nikumbha, Kupata, and then Kapata; Sarabha, and Sulabha, Surya, and then Chandramas; these in the race of Danu are stated to be well-known. |
Mbh.12.320.20023 | Bhishma said, In this connection is cited the old narrative of the discourse between Janaka and Sulabha, O Bharata! |
Mbh.12.320.20029 | In the same Satya Yuga, a woman of the name of Sulabha, belonging to the mendicant order, practised the duties of Yoga and wandered over the whole Earth. |
Mbh.12.320.20030 | In course of her wanderings over the Earth, Sulabha heard from many Dandis of different places that the ruler of Mithila was devoted to the religion of Emancipation. |
Mbh.12.320.20031 | Hearing this report about king Janaka and desirous of ascertaining whether it was true or not, Sulabha became desirous of having a personal interview with Janaka. |
Mbh.12.320.20032 | Abandoning, by her Yoga powers, her former form and features, Sulabha assumed the most faultless features and unrivalled beauty. |
Mbh.12.320.20037 | Refreshed duly and gratified with the rites of hospitality offered unto her, Sulabha, the female mendicant, urged the king, who was surrounded by his ministers and seated in the midst of learned scholars, to declare himself in respect of his adherence to the religion of Emancipation. |
Mbh.12.320.20038 | Doubting whether Janaka had succeeded in attaining to Emancipation, by following the religion of Nivritti, Sulabha, endued with Yoga-power, entered the understanding of the king by her own understanding. |
Mbh.12.320.20040 | That best of monarch, priding himself upon his own invincibleness and defeating the intentions of Sulabha seized her resolution with his own resolution |
Mbh.12.320.20042 | The lady Sulabha, in hers, was without the triple stick. |
Mbh.12.320.20044 | Listen to that conversation as it happened between the monarch and Sulabha. |
Mbh.12.320.20150 | Bhishma continued, Though rebuked by the king in these unpleasant, improper, and ill-applied words, the lady Sulabha was not at all abashed. |
Mbh.12.320.20151 | After the king had said these words, the beautiful Sulabha then addressed herself for saying the following words in reply that were more handsome than her person. |
Mbh.12.320.20152 | Sulabha said, O king, speech ought always to be free from the nine verbal faults and the nine faults of judgment. |
Mbh.12.320.20345 | I am born in his race, and my name is Sulabha. |
Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice. |
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