Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4467

c9.4467

It was during this period that the marriage of Prabhāvatī, the sister of Ruci, took place. The marriage of Prabhāvatī with Citraratha, the king of Aṅga, was settled. A messenger from Aṅga informed Ruci about it. Then some flowers fell from the sky near Ruci. She wore them and went to the marriage. Prabhāvatī wanted to have the same flowers. Vipula was sent to bring flowers of the same kind. As Vipula was returning with the flowers, he saw two men turning a wheel. Each of them claimed that he had turned more than the other, and quarrelled with each other. One of them pointing at Vipula, said that he who told lies would get what Vipula would undergo in hell. Vipula was worried at hearing this. He proceeded on his journey. He saw six men gambling. One of them pointed at Vipula and said "A false gamester would get what Vipula would get in hell." Being flurried by these two talks, Vipula ran to his teacher to understand its meaning. He went to Campāpurī and saw the teacher and asked him the meaning of what he had heard. The teacher told him, that the two who turned the wheel day and night and the six who were engaged in gambling were the six Ṛtus (seasons) and that Ṛtus and day and night are witnesses of every sinful act committed any time. Vipula became aware of his sin. While he was staying inside the wife of his teacher, his genital touched her genital and face touched face. He had not told the teacher this. But the teacher said that it need not be considered a sin because the deed was done with no bad intention.