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Devasmitá

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Broadcast on:: 29 Jun 2024
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Thereupon the whole harem was both confused, lamentation and a king himself shrieked out, "My son, my son, are the common man. The boy was soon comforted, the aunt having been removed, and the king blamed the misfortune of his only having one son as the cause of all his grief, and he asked the Brahmins in his affliction if there was any expedient by which he might obtain a large number of children. They answered him, "Okay, there is one expedient open to you, you must slay this son and offer up all his flesh in the fire. By smelling the smell of that sacrifice, all thy wives will obtain sons." When he had heard that the king had the whole ceremony performed as they directed, and he obtained as many sons as he had wives. "So we can obtain a son for you, also by a bird offering." When they had said this Dada-Dott, the Brahmins, after a sacrificial fee had been promised them, performed a sacrifice, then a son was born to that merchant. His son was called Guisane, and he gradually grew up to man's estate. Then his father, Dada-Dott, began to look out for a wife for him. Then his father went with that son of his to another country on the pretense of traffic, but really to get a daughter-in-law. There he asked an excellent merchant of the name of Dharmagupta to give him his daughter named Devashmita for his son, Guisane, but Dharmagupta, who was tenderly attached to his daughter, did not approve of that connection, selecting the city of Dharmagupta was very far off. But when Devashmita beheld that Guisane, her mind was immediately attracted by his bird juice, and she was set on abandoning her relations. And so, she made an assonation with him by means of a confidant, and went away from that country at night with her beloved and his father. When they reached Dharmagupta, they were married, and a mind of the young couple were firmly knit together by the bond of mutual love. Then Guisane's father died, and he himself was urged by his relations to go to the country of Kataha for the purpose of trafficking. But his wife, Devashmita, was too jealous to approve of that expedition, fearing exceedingly that he would be attracted by some other lady. Then, as his wife did not approve of it, and his relations kept inciting him to it, Guisane, whose mind was firmly set on doing his duty, was bewildered. Then he went and performed a vow in the temple of the God, observing a rigid fast, trusting that the God would show him some way out of this difficulty. And his wife, Devashmita, also performed a vow with him. Then Chivo was pleased to appear to that couple in a dream, in giving them two res lotuses that God said to them, "Take each of you one of these lotuses in your hand." And if either of you shall be unfaithful during your separation, the lotus in the hand of the other shall fade, but not otherwise. After hearing this, the two woke up, and each be held in the hand of the other a red lotus, and it seemed as if they had got one another's hearts. Then Guisane set out, lotus in hand, but Devashmita remained in the house with her eyes fixed upon the flower. Guisane for his part quickly reached the country of Kataha and began to buy and sell jewels there, and four young merchants in that country, seeing that that unbaiting lotus was ever in his hand were greatly astonished. Accordingly they got him to their house by an artifice, and made him drink a great deal of wine, and then asked him the whole story of the lotus, and he being intoxicated told them the whole story. Then those four young merchants, knowing that Guisane would take a long time to complete his sales and purchases of jewels and other wares, planned together like rascals as they were, the seduction of his wife out of curiosity, and eager to accomplish it set out quickly for Tamrelita without the departure being noticed. There, they cast about for some instrument, and at last had recourse to a female acetic of the name of Yoga Karndika, who lived in a sanctuary of Buddha, and they said to her in an affectionate matter, Reverend Madam, if our object is accomplished by your help, we will give you much wealth. She answered them, "No doubt you young men desire some woman in the city, so tell me all about it. I will procure you the object of your desire, but I have no wish for money. I have a pupil of distinguished ability named Sevi Kari, owing to her kindness, I have obtained untold wealth." The young merchant asked, "How have you obtained untold wealth by the assistance of a pupil?" Being asked this question, female acetic said, "If you feel any curiosity about the matter, listen my sons, I will tell you the whole story." Story of the cunning Sevi Kari. On the go, a certain merchant came here from the south. While he was dwelling here, my pupil went and obtained with a treacherous object, the position of a serving maid in his house, having first altered her appearance. And after she had gained the confidence of that merchant, she stole all his horde of gold from his house, and went off secretly in the morning twilight. And as she went out from the city, moving rapidly through beer, a certain damba with his drum in his hand saw her, and pursued her at full speed with the intention of robbing her. When she had reached the foot of the nia-gro-de-tree, she saw that he had come up with her, and so the cunning Sevi Kari said this to him in a plaintive manner, "I have had a jealous quarrel with my husband, and I have left his house to die; therefore, my good man, make a noose for me to hang myself with." Then the damba thought, let her hang herself, what should I be guilty of her death, especially as she is a woman, and so he fastened a noose for her to the tree. Then Sevi Kari, feigning an ignorance, said to the damba, "How has the noose slipped around the neck? Show me, I entreat you!" Then the damba placed the drum under his feet, and saying, "This is the way we do the trick. He fastened the noose around his own throat. Sevi Kari, for her part, smashed the drum to Adam's, the kick, and that damba hung till he was dead. At that moment, the merchant arrived in search of her, and beheld from a distant Sevi Kari who had stolen from him untold treasures at the foot of the tree. She too saw him, coming, and climbed up the tree without being noticed, and remained there on a bow, having her body concealed by the dense foliage. When the merchant came up with his servants, he saw the damba hanging by his neck, but Sevi Kari was nowhere to be seen. Immediately, one of his servants said, "I wonder if she has got up this tree and proceeded to ascend it himself?" Then Sevi Kari said, "I have always loved you, and now you have climbed up where I am, so all this wealth is at your disposal. Handsome man, come and embrace me!" So she embraced the merchant's servant, and as she was kissing his mouth, she bit off the fool's tongue. He, overcome with the pain, fell from the tree spitting blood from his mouth, uttering some indistinct syllables with sounded like lalala. When he saw that the merchant was terrified and supposing his servant had been seized by a demon, he fled from that place and went to his own house with his attendants. When Sevi Kari, the female acetic, equally frightened, descended from the top of the tree and brought home with her all that wealth. Such a person is my pupil, distinguished for her great discernment, and it is in this way my son that I have obtained wealth by her kindness. When she had said this to the young merchants, the female acetic showed to them her pupil who happened to come in at that moment and said to them, "Now my sons, tell me the real state of affairs, what woman do you desire? I will quickly procure her for you." When they heard that, they said, "Because an interview with the wife of the merchant, Goesane, named Devashmita." When she heard that, the acetic undertook to manage that business for them, and she gave those young merchants her own house to reside in. Then she gratified the servants at Goesane's house with gifts of sweet meats and other things, and afterwards entered it with her pupil. Then as she approached the private rooms of Devashmita, a hound that was fastener of the chain would not let her come near, but opposed her entrance in the most determined way. Then Devashmita, seeing her of her own accord, sent a maid, and had her brought in thinking to herself, "What can this person become before?" After she had entered, the wicked acetic gave Devashmita her blessing, and treating the virtuous woman with affected respect, said to her, "I have always had a desire to see you, but today I saw you in a dream. Therefore I have come to visit you with impatient eagerness, and my mind is afflicted at beholding you separated from your husband. For beauty and youth are wasted when one is deprived of the society of one's beloved." With this, and many other speeches of the same kind, she tried to gain the confidence of the virtuous woman in a short interview, and then, taking leave of her, she returned to her own house. On the second day, she took with her a piece of meat full of pepper dust, and she went again to the house of Devashmita, and there she gave that piece of meat to the hound at the door, and the hound goppled it up, pepper and all. Then, owing to the pepper dust, the tears flowed in profusion from the animal's eyes, and her nose began to run, and the cunning acetic immediately went into the apartment of Devashmita, who received her hospitably, and began to cry. When Devashmita asked her why she shed tears, she said with affected reluctance, "My friend, look at this hound weeping outside here. This creature recognized me today as having been its companion in a form of birth, and began to weep. For that reason, my tears gushed through pity." When she heard that, and saw that hound outside apparently weeping, Devashmita thought for a moment to herself, "What can be the meaning of this wonderful sight?" Then the acetic said to her, "My daughter, in a form of birth, I and that hound were the two whys of a certain brahman, and her husband frequently went about to other countries on embassies by order of the king. Now, while he was away from home, I limbed at my goodwill and pleasure, and so did not cheat the elements of which I was composed, and my senses of their lawful enjoyment. For considerate treatment of the elements and senses is held to be the highest duty. Therefore, I have been born in this birth with a recollection of my former existence, but she, in her former life through ignorance, can find all her attention to the preservation of her character; therefore, she has been degraded and born again as one of the canine race; however, she too remembers her former birth. The wise Devashmita said to herself, "This is a novel conception of duty; no doubt this woman has laid a treacherous snare for me, and so she said to her, "Revern lady, for this long time I have been ignorant of this duty, so procure me an interview with some charming man." Then the acetic said, "There are residing here some young merchants that have come from an out of country, so I will break them to you." When she had said this, the acetic returned home, delighted, and Devashmita of her own accord said to her maids. No doubt those scoundrel-y young merchants, whoever they may be, have seen that unfading lotus in the hand of my husband, and have on some occasion or other, when he was drinking wine, asked him out of curiosity to tell the whole story of it, and have now come here from that island to deceive me; and this wicked acetic is employed by them. So bring quickly some wine mixed with detura, and when you have brought it, have a dog's foot of iron made as quickly as possible. When Devashmita had given them orders, the maids executed them faithfully, and one of the maids, by her orders, dressed herself up to resemble her mistress. The acetic of her part chose out of the party of four members, each of whom in his eagerness said, "Let me go first!" One individual and brought him with her, and concealing him in the dress of her pupil, we introduced him in the evening into the house that Devashmita, and coming out, disappeared. Then that maid, who was disguised as Devashmita, courteously persuaded the young merchant to drink some of that wine, drugged with detura. That liquor, with his own immodesty, robbed him of his senses, and then the maid took away his clothes and other equipments and left him stark naked. Then they branded him on the forehead with the mark of a dog's foot, and during the night it took him and pushed him into a ditch full of filth. Then he recovered consciousness in the last watch of the night, and found himself plunged in the ditch, as if it were the hell Devashmita assigned to him by his sins. When he got up and washed himself and went to the house of the female acetic, in a state of misery, dealing with his spingers, the mark on his forehead. And when he got there, he told his friends that he had been robbed on the way, in order that he might not be the only person made ridiculous. And the next morning he sat with a cloth, wrapped around his branded forehead, giving as an excuse that he had a headache from keeping awake so long, and drinking too much. In the same way the next young merchant was maltreated when he got to the house of Devashmita, and when he returned home stripped he said, "I put on my ornaments there, and as I was coming out I was plundered by robbers." And in the morning he also, on the plea of a headache, put a wrapper on to cover his branded forehead. In the same way, all the four young merchants suffered and churned, branding, and other humiliating treatment, though they concealed the fact. And they went away from the place, without revealing to the female Buddhist acetic the ill treatment they had experienced, hoping that she would suffer in a similar way. On the next day the acetic went with her disciple to the house of Devashmita, much delighted in having accomplished what she undertook to do. Devashmita received her courteously, and made her drink wine drug with the Torah, offered a sign of gratitude. When she and her disciple were intoxicated with it, the chase wife cut off their ears and noses, and flung them also into a filthy pool, and being distressed by the thought of that. Perhaps these young merchants might go and slay her husband, she told the whole circumstance to her mother-in-law. Then her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, you have acted nobly, but possibly some made fortune may happen to my son in consequence of what you have done." So the wise Devashmita, forthwith, put on the dress of a merchant, and she embarked on a ship on the pretense of a mercantile expedition, and came to the country of Kataha where her husband was, and when she arrived there, she saw that husband her as guisain in the midst of a circle of merchants, like consolation in external bodily form. He, seeing her afar off in the dress of a man, as it were, drank her in with his eyes and bought to himself, who made this merchant be that looks so like my beloved wife? So Devashmita went, and represented to the king, that she had a petition to make, and asked him to assemble all his subjects. Then the king, full of curiosity, assembled all his citizens, and said to that lady disguised as the merchant, "What is your petition?" Then Devashmita said, "There are residing here in the city. In your midst, four slaves of mine who have escaped, but the king make them over to me." Then the king said to her, "All the citizens are present here, so look at everyone in order to recognize them and take those slaves to yours." Then she seized upon the four young merchants, who she had before treated in such a humiliating way in her house, who had wrappers bound around their heads. Then the merchants, who were there, flew in a passion and said to her, "These are the sons of distinguished merchants, how can they be your slaves?" And she answered them, "If you do not believe what I say, examine their foreheads, which I have marked with a dog's foot." They consented, and removing the head wrappers of these four, they all beheld the dog's foot on their foreheads. Then all the merchants were abashed, and the king, being astonished, himself asked Devashmita what all this meant. She told the whole story, and all the people burst out laughing, and the king said to the lady, "They are your slaves by the best of titles." 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