Skandapurana 6.2.61.54.2

6.2.61.54.2

tyaktā tena varārohe nininda nijayauvanam .. 14 ..
durbhagāhaṃ kva jātātra duṣṭadaivavaśīkṛtā ..
kathaṃ prāptaḥ sa me bharttā tādṛśo nṛpasa ttamaḥ .. 15 ..
dhanyo'yamatipuṇyo'yaṃ yo'yaṃ yauvanagocaraḥ ..
anyāsāmasatīnāṃ ca ramiṣyati na saṃśayaḥ .. 16 ..
abhīṣṭā kasyacitkāṃtā kāṃtaḥ kasyāścidīpsitaḥ ..
parasparānurāgāḍhayaṃ dāṃpatyamatidurlabham .. 17 ..
mamāyaṃ vallabho rājā na cāhaṃ nṛpavallabhā ..
parasparānurāgo hi dhanyānāmeva jāyate .. 18 ..
yadyadya sa mahīpālo na mayā saṃgameṣyati ..
tatkāmāgniravaśyaṃ māṃ kṣapayiṣyati duḥsahaḥ .. 19 ..
ramaṇīyamabhūdyattu puṃskokilanināditam ..
hīnaṃ hi vallabhenaivaṃ dahatīvādya me vanam.. 5.2.61.20 ..
itthaṃ sā madanāviṣṭā vilapantī punaḥpunaḥ ..
dadarśa tāpasaṃ tatra trikālajñaṃ dṛḍhavratam .. 21 ..
mekhalājinakaupīnadaṇḍakāṣṭhopajīvanam ..
mahaujasaṃ mahābhāgaṃ mumukṣuṃ munipuṃgavam ..22..
udayādityasaṃkāśaṃ vibhāvasusamadyutim ..
taṃ dṛṣṭvā sahasotthāya sā rājñī durmatā satī .. 23 ..
vinayenopasaṃyamya praṇipatyābhivādya ca ..
viyogakāraṇaṃ rājñaḥ papraccha praṇatā satī .. 24 ..
bhagavankāśirājasya sutāhamativallabhā ..
bhaginī śatrusenasya mātuścātīva vallabhā .. 25 ..
aśvavāhanasaṃjñena nṛpeṇoḍhā mahāmune ..
dharmato dharmakalpena prajapatisamena tu .. 26 ..
sā kimarthaṃ na cābhīṣṭā jātā'haṃ tasya bhūpateḥ ..
sa cātīva mamābhīṣṭo nṛpatiḥ sarvadā vibho .. .. 27 ..
durbhagāhaṃ kathaṃ jātā karmaṇā kena tāpasa ..
kathaṃ bhavati vaśyo me bharttā nṛpatisattamaḥ ..
saubhāgyaṃ ca kathaṃ me syāditi satyaṃ ca kathyatām .. 28 ..

Abandoned by him, O lady of fair hips, she cursed her own youth:
"Subdued by wicked fate, why was I born here so unfortunate? / How was such an excellent king obtained by me as my husband?
Blessed is he, of great merit, who is the object of this youth, / and who will doubtless take pleasure with other, unchaste women!
To one man a wife is dear; to another woman a husband is desired. / A wedlock rich in mutual love is exceedingly rare.
This king is dear to me, but I am not dear to the king. / Mutual affection indeed arises only for the blessed.
If that king does not unite with me today, / then the unbearable fire of desire will surely consume me.
That forest, which was charming and resounding with male cuckoos, / now seems to burn me, bereft of my beloved."
Thus possessed by passion, lamenting again and again, / she saw an ascetic there, a knower of the three times, firm in vows,
subsisting on a girdle, a deer skin, a loincloth, a staff, and firewood, / of great splendor, highly fortunate, desiring liberation, the best of sages,
resembling the rising sun, shining like fire. / Seeing him, that queen, thought ill of [by her husband] though virtuous, rose up at once.
Subduing herself with modesty, having prostrated and greeted him, / bowing low, the chaste woman asked the cause of separation from the king:
"O venerable one, I am the daughter of the king of Kāśi, exceedingly beloved, / sister of Śatrusena, and very dear to my mother.
Married by the king named Aśvavāhana, O great sage, / in accordance with righteousness, by a righteous rite, one equal to Prajāpati.
Why then have I become disliked by that king, / while he, the monarch, is always exceedingly dear to me, O lord?
How did I become unfortunate? By what deed, O ascetic? / How can my husband, the best of kings, become subservient to me, / and how may good fortune be mine? Tell me this truthfully!"