Simhasanadvatrimshika 12.p13

12.p13

rākṣaseno 'ktam: tava kim anena vicāreṇa? tvam ātmano mārgeṇa gaccha, anyathā vṛthai 'va mama hastena mariṣyasi. tata ubhayor yuddhaṃ jātam, rājñā mārito rākṣasaḥ. tadā sā strī samāgatya rajñaḥ pādayoḥ patitvā bhaṇati. bhoḥ svamin, tava prasādān mama śāpasyā 'vasānam abhūt; mahato duḥkhasāgarād uddhṛtā tvayā 'ham. rājā bhaṇati: kā tvam? tayo 'ktam: śrūyatām. asminn eva nagare mahādhanasaṃpannaḥ kaścid brāhmaṇo 'bhūt. tasya bhāryā 'haṃ vyabhicāriṇī; mama tasyo 'pari prītir nā 'sti, tasya mamo 'pari mahān anurago vartate. rūpādigarvayuktā 'haṃ tena saṃbhogārtham āhūtā na gacchāmi. tato yāvajjīvaṃ kāmasaṃtaptaḥ sa mama patir dehāvasānasamaye mām aśapat: kim iti, he durācāre pāparūpe, yathā yāvajjīvaṃ tvayā mama saṃtāpaḥ kṛtaḥ, tathai 'va veṇuvanavāsī kaścid rākṣaso 'tibhayaṃkararūpo rātrau tvām anicchantīṃ suratārthaṃ pratidinaṃ mārayatu. iti tena śaptā 'ham. punaḥ śāpasyā 'vasānaṃ mayā yācitam: kim iti, bho nātha, śāpasyā 'vasānaṃ dehi. teno 'ktam: yadā paropakārī mahādhairyasaṃpannaḥ puruṣaḥ kaścit samāgatya rākṣasaṃ mārayiṣyati, tadā tava śāpāvasānaṃ bhaviṣyati.

The demon said: "What is this concern of yours? Go your own way, otherwise you will die in vain by my hand." Then a battle took place between the two, and the demon was killed by the king. Then that woman came, fell at the king's feet, and said: "O master, by your grace the end of my curse has arrived; I have been lifted up by you from a great ocean of sorrow." The king said: "Who are you?" She said: "Listen. In this very city there was a certain brahmin possessed of great wealth. I, an unfaithful woman, was his wife; I had no love for him, [yet] he had a great attachment to me. Puffed up with pride in my beauty and the like, when summoned by him for pleasure, I would not go. Then, tormented by desire throughout his life, my husband at the time of his bodily death cursed me: 'Since throughout my life sorrow was caused to me by you, you wicked and sinful woman, even so let a certain most terrifying demon dwelling in the bamboo forest kill you every day at night for the sake of sexual congress, against your will!' Thus was I cursed by him. Again, the end of the curse was begged for by me: 'O lord, give me an end to the curse!' He said: 'When a certain man of great courage who practices benevolence towards others comes and kills the demon, then the end of your curse will come.'"