The Prem sagurCaturbhujamisra, active 17th century
Religion
The Prem sagur
Caturbhujamisra, active 17th century
Krishna (Hindu deity)
Having narrated these circumstances, Shree Shookdeo Jee said to the
Raja,--O great king! listening in this manner to the discourses of
Ruti, when Purdiyomun had grown up, he went one day playing to the
Raja Sunbur. On beholding him, and regarding him as his own son he
said, fondling him, “I have brought this child up as my own son.” On
hearing these words, Purdiyomun Jee replied with very great anger, “I,
though a child, am your enemy; fight with me now, and see my
strength.” Having thus spoken, he came forward, striking his arms in
preparation for the encounter; upon this Sunbur laughed, and began to
say, “Brother! whence has this other Purdiyomun come here on my
account? What, have I fed with milk, and nourished a snake, that he
should thus speak to me?” After this, he again said, “Son! why do you
talk thus? Has the messenger of death come to take you away.”
O great king, on hearing these words from Sunbur, he replied,
“Purdiyomun is my name: fight with me to-day. You it was, who set me
adrift in the sea; but I have now returned to take my revenge. You
have brought up the instrument of your death in your own house; and I
am neither your son, nor are you my father.”
On hearing this, Sunbur seized his weapons, the passions of his mind
being greatly inflamed with rage, like a person, who has trodden on a
snake’s tail in the dark. Sunbur sent for all his army, and taking
Purdiyomun outside, he, in great fury, raised a club, and said in a
voice of thunder, “Let us see, who will now save you from death.” When
he rushed towards him, and brandished the club, Purdiyomun Jee easily
evaded and parried his attacks. Being furious with rage he then
discharged arrows of fire, which he quenched with arrows of water.
Sunbur in great wrath then expended all the weapons he had and
Purdiyomun warded them off. When he had not a single weapon left, he
rushed forward furiously and grappled with Purdiyomun Jee, and they
both began to wrestle. After some time, Purdiyomun flew off with him
to the sky, and there cut off his head with a sword; and on his
return, slew the army of demons. Sunbur being slain, Ruti was made
happy. And at that time, a chariot descended from the sky, on which
Ruti and her husband ascended, and went to Dwarka with the same
celerity, as a beautiful cloud with lightning flies; and on arriving
there, they observed houses of gold, glittering like lofty hills. On
descending from the chariot, they both retired at once to the female
apartments. All the women were startled at seeing them; and were
ashamed, thinking that Shree Krishnù had brought a beautiful woman
with him. But no one knew, that it was Purdiyomun; all of them called
him Krishnù. When Purdiyomun asked where his father and mother were,
Rookmunee Jee began to say to her companions, “Friends! who is this in
the likeness of Huri?” They replied, “We think, that this must be a
son of Shree Krishnù’s.”
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