A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c8.s3.112

c8.s3.112

“On a certain occasion, approaching his mother, who was weeping, he inquired, ‘My dear mother, why dost thou weep?’ On being answered by her, ‘My child, thou art gifted to sway a chhatta. Do not, my boy, endeavour by raising the chhatta, to become a sovereign. Princes everywhere are unstable in their attachments. Thou also, my child, wilt forget the affection thou owest me. In that case, I should be reduced to the deepest distress. I weep under these apprehensions.’ He exclaimed: ‘My mother, what is that gift that I possess? On what part of my person is it indicated?’ and on her replying, ‘My dear, on thy teeth,’ smashing his own teeth, and becoming ‘Kandhadatto’ (a tooth-broken man) he devoted himself to the protection of his mother. Thus it was that he became celebrated as the filial protector of his mother. He was not only a tooth-broken man, but he was disfigured by a