Storia do Mogor 249.1

249.1

They imagine that we enter into glory in five different places. The first they call Zoarcan (Swargam). It is here that in their opinion dwells the king of the gods, called Devydyrey (Devendra), with his two wives Yzachy (Sachi) and Indariny (Indrani), and five mistresses famous for their excessive beauty. There the three hundred and thirty thousand million gods keep him company, and with several millions of mistresses taste and enjoy delight of every sort. They, too, share in the glory of Swarga. They add that forty-eight thousand ascetics participate in this felicity, and without their advice the gods can order nothing in this world or the other. As for this heavenly glory and their esteem for it, they cannot be great, because they hold that several pleasures of this world rise above and surpass those of the other ; for their king of the gods was not content with the delights there, and quitting what they imagine to be his glory there, came to enjoy those of this world. To confirm this fantastic belief, they relate a fable. To the river Ganges came an ascetic called Gaudame (Gautama), who lived there with his wife Gaudalay (Ahalya), and she was, according to them, very beautiful, so much so that the king of the gods resolved to consort with the ascetic, and share this part of his mortification.