Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 52
English (machine translation) 52
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- 52.17 — 2 parts
52.1
Īśvara said: / I shall tell another narrative of an event in ancient times, O king, / in which a sage of great ascetic heat went to heaven with his family.
52.2
Uttānapāda said: / How did that Brahmin, the great seer, go to heaven with his family? / My curiosity is supreme, O god; tell me, O Lord!
52.3
Īśvara said: / Formerly, there was a king of Kāśī known as Citrasena, / heroic, generous, truly virtuous, and prosperous in every desire.
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That city was crowded with people, adorned with various gems, / renowned as Vārāṇasī, resting on the banks of the Gaṅgā,
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resembling the autumn moon, adorned with learned people, / filled with Indra's banners, surrounded by cowherds and herds of cattle,
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covered with many flags, resounding with the chanting of the Vedas, / brilliant with buying and selling conducted by various merchants,
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beautified with engines, weapons, high streets, and other [structures], / endowed with divine temples of the deities and dense hermitages,
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delightful with various flowers and fruits, adorned with groves of plantains, / with jackfruits, bakulas, palmyras, aśokas, and mangoes,
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beautified with rājavṛkṣas, kapitthas, and pomegranates, / its auspiciousness purified by the loud sounds of Vedic study.
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In the northern region of that [city], there was a very beautiful hermitage, / named Mandāravana, renowned in the three worlds.
52.11
It was filled with many mandāra trees; therefore they called it Mandāraka. / A Brahmin named Dīrghatapas always resided there.
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He practiced ascetic heat excessively; therefore he was remembered as Dīrghatapas. / He lived with his wife, his sons, and his daughters-in-law.
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His five sons constantly served him with diligence. / But his youngest son was Ṛkṣaśṛṅga, of great ascetic heat,
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accomplished in Vedic study, a celibate student endowed with virtues, / always devoted to the practice of yoga, subsisting on roots and fruits.
52.15
Assuming the form of a deer, he roamed with a herd of deer at that time; / and at the end of each day, he approached his parents.
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The devoted son of the sage would always pay homage [to them], / and then return to that very forest, into a mountain cave.
52.17
Playing daily with young deer, that son of the sage, / at some time, by the turn of fate, that Ṛkṣaśṛṅga died.
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|| Thus ends the fifty-second chapter, entitled 'Description of the Narrative of the Sage Dīrghatapas in the Story of Ṛkṣaśṛṅga, in the Glorification of Śūlabheda', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Avantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
52.17.p2
RKV Chapter 53
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