Jalandhara Disguised as Shiva Goes to Parvati

Narada said:

1-3. Then hearing the din of the demons on the battlefield, Jalandhara, seated in a chariot, came where Shiva was. Angrily and quickly he spoke to his charioteer Kha^garoman: “Send forth quickly the chariot to which a thousand horses are yoked. I shall bravely kill that ascetic, adorned with matted hair, sacred ash and bones. What is the power of the crippled one mounted on the bull in the battle with me? ”

Narada said:

4-6. Speaking like this to Khadgaroman the haughty (Jalan­dhara) took his fierce bow and quickly ran to (the battlefield) in his chariot. Virabhadra checked him who was coming (there) with sharp arrows. With his body made breathless, he covered him with arrows. Though (Virabhadra) the attendant of the lord of beings (i.e. Shiva) was equal to the gods, yet can the skulls attain similarity with the moon?

7-9. Manibhadra also pierced the Ocean’s son (Jalandhara). He having killed Maijibhadra by a noose said to the lord (i.e. Shiva): “O Mahadeva, if you have the practice in (wielding) weapons, then come to fight (with me). You strike me. In the battle I shall not strike you having matted hair.” Him who was proudly speaking like this, Virabhadra, who was angry, covered with arrows, as the sun covers a lotus with his rays.

10-13. Then Maijibhadra hit his army with a mace. О hero, striking a chariot after a chariot, ahorse aftera horse, an elephant after an elephant, he knocked them down on the earth. In a moment, the ground was tawny due to the mud-like blood and became difficult to walk over; and the chief attendants (of Shiva) struck down the demons from the mountain in the battle. The brave demons dropped dead on the ground. О king, the demons (thus) fell (on the ground) and the ground was full of (their) trunks, arms, heads, and the backs and trunks and thighs of the ele­phants.

Narada said:

14-17. In this way he saw that Shiva was extremely difficult to be conquered in the battle. He also saw other signs in the world: A different lustre was (noticed) in the stars, the moon and all (objects). The sheath of the world was opened (obscure); and the lustre of the sun was quite different. О king, Jalandhara who was disappointed again thought: T have not seen that Parvati about whom Narada told me much. Now how shall I see Parvati, seated on a perpetual place? First I shall go to see her, and after that I shall fight with Shiva.’

18-20a. Thinking like this with (i.e. in) his mind, the son of the Ocean spoke to demon Sumbha: “O brave one, О you, equal to me in heroism, in (the battle for) fierce victory, please fight after taking up a form similar to that of mine. The burden (i.e. the responsibility) of the camp and the army is (now) yours. I shall go to see that Parvati who has captivated my heart.”

20b-25. Speaking like this, he took down from his body ornaments and gave them to him. He also gave him the armour, the weapons etc., so also the chariot along with the charioteer. Then, О king, the son of the Ocean, along with Durvara^a, left the army, and unnoticed he went to the secret cave of that (part of Kailasa) mountain to the north of Manasa and took up Shiva’s form. Like that (i.e. like him) Durvarana also had taken up the form like that of Nandin. Then the two, disguised as Shiva and Nandin, climbed up the mountain, on a peak of which Parvati along with her friends remained, О king. Seeing him who was resting upon Nandin’s shoulder, coming (there) and pierced with arrows and seeing his garment smeared with blood, Parvati was amazed. Her friends like Jaya etc. being confused, went to him.

26-29. Going near Shiva (i.e. near Jalandhara who was dis­guised as Shiva), they, being very much afflicted, said to him: “О lord of gods, what has happened to you? By whom are you conquered in the battle? О lord how (is it that) you are dis­tressed, and are weeping like an (ordinary) creature? ” He who was thus addressed by them, gave separately (i.e. to each one of) them his ornaments. He slowly took down Vasuki and others from his body. Seeing under his arm-pit, the heads of Ganesha and Kartikeya that were cut off, Parvati wept (saying): “O Skanda, О Ganesha, О Rudra.” Then all her friends, errfhciated through grief, wept.

30-38. At this time Nandin said to Jaya: “You (please) look after her. Manibhadra, Virabhadra, the brave Puspadanta, Dambhana, Dhiimatimira, and KQsmanda and others are killed in the battle. So also Caridin, Bhrngin, Kiritin, Mahakala, SSrnkhalin, Caridisha, Guptanetra, and Kala and others are killed in the battle. О goddess, in the great battle I saw the heads of Gajanana and Kartikeya whirling (round).” Saying so, he dropped them before her. Hearing these words of Nandin, and taking the heads of her sons, Parvati, saying, “O (my) son, О (my) son”, lamented loudly. (She said: ) “O (Kartikeya, the) enemy of Taraka, how (is it that) you were killed by the Ocean’s son in the battle? You were consecrated by the gods as the general of their army when you were (just) three days old. О hero, how did you destroy (the demon) named Taraka at that time? Did you fall on the ground because you were abandoned by Shiva? О son, I, who am luckless, have not seen the face of my daughter-in-law (i.e. your wife). О child, you have not enjoyed these pleasures which belong to the mundane existence. О dear Heramba, О Vighnesa, О Lambodara, О Gajanana, О my son, who knocked you honoured (even) by the siddhas, on the battle­field. How and by whom was your vehicle, the mouse, killed? ”

39-43. Gauri (i.e. Parvati) who was lamenting like this, said to shiva (i.e. to Jalandhara, who had disguised himself as

Shiva) who was very much grieved: “O lord of gods, you are actually Rudra. You are Нага. Do not be afraid. Where has your bull gone? Is he killed by Jalandhara? What, dear to you whose body is wounded with arrows, should I do? ” Then, on hearing the words of the goddess,

Shiva, after heaving a sigh, said: “O darling, both your sons have been killed long back. Why do you lament in vain? О goddess, protect me now by giving me the contact of your body (i.e. by having sexual union with me).” Having heard these untimely and eager words of Shiva, Parvati said to the god: “You have not spoken proper words. О Shiva, the wise avoid sexual union when there is great grief, when fear is caused, at (the time of someone having) pro­found meditation, at (the time of) offering oblations, when having severe fever, at (the time of) a sraddha, at (the time of) a march, and in the vicinity of the elders and the old.

44-49. How do you solicit me who am afflicted with grief, troubled by (the grief due to) my son’s death, weak, and lan­guid with tears, and who am (mentally) sick? ” Hearing these words of Bhavani, that false

2shiva (i.e. Jalandhara disguised as

Shiva) who was fascinated by the beauty of Parvati, said with a selfish motive: “Thoseladies (who) do not give (the pleasure of) sex to the afflicted men (i.e. their husbands) undoubtedly fall into the fierce Raurava (hell). О you beautiful lady, I am with­out my attendants, without my sons, and without intelligence. О you beautiful young lady, now I am without possessions and without everything. I am void of a good life. I have come here to ask you. Entering my house, I shall quickly cast my figure (i.e. kill myself). О Nandin, get up. We shall go to a holy place. Be before me (i.e. lead me). О dear wife, you go according to your desire. Give up your nature (of a royal wife).”

50-51. Hearing these words of the illusive Shiva, Parvati heaved a long sigh, and was paralysed by grief. When he was thus greatly agitated, she did not say anything for a moment. She who had fascinated the entire immobile and mobile world, was herself bewildered by him. I do not know (i.e. cannot con­ceive) the pain to the mind.

 

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