Brahma Vaivarta Purana
The Wedding of Durväsä and Kandali
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
1.Çri Näräyaëa Åñi said: O sage, now please hear the confidential story of celibate Durväsä Muni's wedding. 2.After watching the sexual activities of the demon and the apsarä, Durväsä Muni began to hanker after sex. Even a person who controls his senses can fall down bybad association. 3.The desire for sex unexpectedly appeared in his heart. He stopped performing austerities. Tortured by lust, he meditated on on the form of a beautiful wife. 4.At that time the great sage Aurva came with his daughter, who was looking for a saintly husband. 5.Aurva was born from the demigod Brahmä's thigh as he was performing austerities. Because he was staunchly celibate (ürdhva-retäù), he was named Aurva. 6.From Aurva's knee was born a daughter named Kandali. She wanted Durväsä as her husband. No one else pleased her heart. 7.Glorious like fire and very cheerful, the sage came, with his daughter, before Durväsä MUni. 8.Seeing the king of sages Aurva, the king of sages Durväsä at once respectfully stood up and then happily bowed down. 9.Aurva bowed down before Durväsä and then happily embraced him. Then he related all of his daughter's desire to marry the sage. 10.Çri Aurva said: My beautiful nubile daughter is named Kandali. Since the time when she first heard of you from a messenger's mouth, she has been rapt in thinking of you. |
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