Death of Upabarhana with the curse of Brahma and lamenting of Malavati.
Sauti said, the king of Gandharva on the birth of son distributed several type of gems and riches among the Brahmanas and others.
On coming to age the boy Upabarhana acquired through the aid of the teacher Vasistha acquired a mantra and he started performing severe austerities.
Once after becoming a youth when the Upabarhana was roaming about the bank of river Gandakl. He was supported by a large number of Gandharvas themselves. All of them were fainted at the sight of the boy.
Thereafter thus people themselves it is there entered their life after performing great tapas. Thereafter they were as the daughter of Gandharva king Citraratha.
Thereafter those girls thereafter they married the Gandharva name Upabarhana with the permission of their father they garlanded the Gandharva boy.
The possessionate Gandharva also started reciting in lonely place after marring those girls. He spent three lakh of divining years with them and enjoyed the youthful life.
О sage, thereafter he was crowned as a king and started enjoying the life pleasure with those ladies. Once he went to Brahma and joined a function there reciting his glory. He found there Ramba dancing in a most attractive manner whose body was like a trunk of banana tree. Her breast well developed and quite hard. The semen of that Gandharva felt at the sight of Rambha.
As a result of this not only was he deprived of the musical concert but also was fainted there. All the guards started laughing aloud. Thereafter Brahma pronouncing a curse of him said shady, the body of Gandharva, you will busy was a Sudra thereafter while keeping the company of Vaisnava your believe as my son and get will established in that position.
O Son, without facing the adversities the people don’t achieve gold. All the people of the world alternatively gets the pleasures and pains.
Saying this, Brahma then went to the holly place of Puskara. О Upabarhana, the Gandharva then died in instantaneously.
He first of all penetrated through the Satcakra name Muladhara, Svadhisthana Manipura, Anahata, Vis’uddha and Ajna developed ida, Sus umna, Medha, Pingala, PranaharinI, Sarvajnanaprada, ManahsamyminI, Visuddha, Niruddha, Vayu-sancarini and which derives the lustre and one which increase the powers, increase intelligence, developed wisdom, causes death to all and grants rebirth, served these sixteen types of vein. Thereafter with the application of yogic practices he brought the mind (Manas) with Prana into Brahmarandhra and he established himself firmly in yogic posture for some time. О Saunaka! thereafter that best of the Yogis, remembering his previous birth Upabarhana achieved the state of salvation.
О Saunaka, he then started reciting the name of two letters i.e. Krsna holding a flute on three strings in his right hand and a garland of pure crystal bits which is the absence of Vedas and can redeem the people at large. He then slept other the bed at Kus’asana keeping his head towards the east and the legs towards the west as if somebody was sleeping.
When his father, the king of Gandharva found him meeting an end with his life in this manner he himself with his wife ended his life recited the name of Krsna, by yogic practices. They thus achieved the place of Lord eternal. Thereafter all the relations and brothers of Upabarhana started crying aloud lamenting at same time. Influenced with the illusion of Visnu they were filled with grieve they went to place where his body was placed. Of all the fifty spouses of Upabarhana, Malavatl happened to be a keep queen. She was quite chaste and was quite deer to her husband. She started crying keeping the head of her husband in her lap.
Malavatl said, “O Lord, you are the best of all the relation. I am getting drowned in the ocean of grieves. You kindly appear before me.
In the painted and charming place in the creation of sandal trees over the bank of river Bhadra in the beautiful grove near the Malaya mountain and served by the breeze having the fragrance of sandal over the bed of sandal of flowers in the region of the Gandhamadana mountain there is a place which is quite charming over the bank of river. It is infested with the Cuckoos. It is filled with milky flowers and clean water. It happened to be a place of Visnu that also LaksmI. All the spots which you had with me are easy my mind initially you use to serve him with your nectar-like speech without it my entire body is suffering from pain. The mind of noble person is better then the pleasure of the Vainkutha. Having been deprived such a noble person which becomes more painful.
Therefore, the wicket people are bound to vanish and for the noble people it is quite painful. It is more painful. It is more painful for the close relations to see the death of someone deer to them besides this the separation of one own son is more painful of all the grieves the separation from someone more painful. There is no other misery greater then this.
Because sleeping eating, waving, sleeping and awake the separation from the husband gets more and more painful with the passage of time.
The woman forgets every grieves in the company of her husband but I do not find any other relation who could make the forget my husband.
Brahma himself emphasised on this that for a chaste lady on high quite family there is no other better relation then the husband.
О the directions and the ruling Dikpalas, О Dharma, О Prajapati, О Lordship О Lord of Lakshmi, you kindly given me back my husband.
Thus spoking the daughter of Citraratha afflicted by seperation felted in the dense forest.
She remains in that unconscious condition placing the head of her husband over her chest for a day and a night. The Gods protected her at that time.
The nest morning after regaining her sense she started lamenting again and again. Thereafter the chaste lady spoke again addressing the lord thus.
Malavatl said, “O Lord, Krishna you are the lord of the entire universe. I also a part of the universe. О Lord, you protect the world. Then why am I deprived of the protection”? My husband is lying here and I am his wife. This feeling of mine is your individual. You are the lord of everyone. It happen like this. What else can I say. Because you happened to be cause of every things.
Because of my own deed Gandharva became my husband quite because of my own deeds I became his wife and after the end influence of the good deeds he left a dearest wife like me.
О Lord, who would happened to be once husband or the son and who happens to be the believed of anyone. It is destiny which connects the people in relationship.
All the pleasures of the world are achieved by people by providence and in the separation the life become miserable. Such if the noble people who are well-versed in the movement of the sole are free from grief.
It is true that all the pleasures of world and the relatives are short lives. It would, therefore, be better to warrant disowned them because if someone else makes such deeds those pleasures it became painful.
Therefore, the simple people voluntarily disowned and pleasure and devoted their mind towards the devotion of Lord Krishna and always they all the lotus-like feet of the Lord.
There are unable quite well-versed intellectual people everywhere on earth but one quite hardly come across and. Therefore, for a foolish persons like me you grant me desired wish.
I am not a desirous eternity, the place of Brahma, the place of Indra or the salvation. Therefore, I should be given back this husband of mine whose like four varnas (castes) for me.
О Lord of the universe, all the ladies in the world none as a virtuous husband given by Brahma, as I have.
О Lord, Brahma has bestow the all virtues, the beauty and the charming nature to them except the immortality.
My husband possess the beauty, the glory, the virtues, the prowess, the intelligence, the peaceful, nature and the satisfaction, thus he is like the lord himself.
My husband is like the devotees of Lord Hari and is like a ocean in death. He is illustrious like sun, shining like the fire, charming like the moon, beautiful like the Lord of love, extremely intelligent and illiteracy feel he can be compared with Sukracarya.
His speech is the essence of all the scriptures. He is like bright in appearance and in riches he is like Kubera. He is the great person is charity like Manu and in the performing of religious rights he is like Dharma himself. He is quite truthful and is a great tapasvl like Sanaka and others. In conduct, he gets Brahma and possess grace like Indra himself. He is patient like the earth. Such a husband of mine is lying died here is about to leave me.
О Gods, you perceive your share of yajna performed on earth I shall now deprived of your share of yajna that I performed.
О Narayana, О lord of the entire universe, I am also a stream with the universe. You bring back to life my husband otherwise I am going to pronounce a curse on you. О Prajapati, you are not adorned honoured because of the curse of your son. I shall now deprive you of the right of honour by pronouncing a curse.
О Lord Siva, I shall deprived you of all your glory and by pronouncing a curse on you and also separate the actions of dharma.
I shall deprive dharma of a rights. There is no doubt about it. Similarly I can also pronounce a curse on cruel God of death and also his daughter.
My husband has not meet with his end because of old age or my ailment. Therefore living this to, I shall pronounce a curse on all adults.
Thus saying the great industrious and chaste Malavatl keeping the head of her dead husband in her lap got ready to pronounce a curse on all the gods. With the end in voice she then and went to bank of the KausikI river. Finding her ready to pronounce a curse all the Gods including Brahma rushed to the ocean of Milk and took refuge under Lord Visnu.
Taking his bath there the panicky Brahma started offering prayers to lord Visnu who is considered the Lord of the Universe.
Brahma said, О Mahadeva, Malavatl the daughter of Citraratha and the wife of Upabarhana is going to pronounce a curse on me and all the Gods. You protect us from her curse.
All saints and sages recite the name of Lord Krishna pleasantly while sleeping or while awake.
O Lord of all the organ of senses, you always protect thus occasion and take refuge under you. You protect us, we took refuge under you.
О Lord, my adoration always come to an end because of the curse of my own son. Now I am going to be deprived of all my rights with the pronounce of the curse by Malavatl.
О Lord, you have distributed all the rights of mine. In the entire universe, О Lord now I am going to be deprived this as a whole.
Brahma said, in earlier time I perform tapas as in the region of Puskara for a period of 100 manvantaras as a result of which I achieve the eternal knowledge. It is quite secret and rare.
The riches, intelligence, knowledge and prowess cannot be equated with the 16lh part of that knowledge.
The most secret and rarest and the best of the knowledge in tattvajnana it is going to vanish because of the curse of a Lady.
This is really surprising that the glory of chaste lady is so powerful. Therefore, О Lord, I am going to burnt out in the fire of time glory. Therefore, you kindly protect me.
Dharma said: О Lord, in the ancient times Dharma was bestow which is the best of all the gems and eternal. It is being snatched away from me.
О Lord of all the universe ! I was bestowed with the same after performing of tapas for seven manvantaras. But О Lord that Dharma to is being snatched away from me because О the curse of that chaste lady.
The God said: О Mahadeva, the duty of consuming of ghee, the clarified butter in the fire utter was interested by you. Because of the curse of the lady we are going to be deprived of it.
The panic-stricken Gods stood there attentively after speaking of this. At the same time the divine voice from the sky declared, as all of you should go to Malavatl thereafter the Lord JanaMana will also reach there in the form of Brahma.
On hearing the divine voice mind of all the Gods filled with delight. All of them then reach the bank of the Kausiki river, there the chaste lady was present.
Не was bearing all the ornaments studded with gems and she looked like the Goddess LaksmI as they were purified in a fire. Her forehead was adorned with Kumkum. She had a lustre of the moon in the winter season. Her lustre illumined of the directions. She performed great religious feet and was having a glory like the burning fire. She was seated there embracing the body of her husband on the ground and she holds the charming flute on her husband in a right hand. She was appearing the beautiful garland of flowers and looked like a damsel of sixteen years old and having a sound. Her chest was broad and stiff. She was presently looking the body of her husband.
Finding Malavatl in this condition all the gods were extremely surprised. All of them were quite noble and therefore, they stood their consoling themselves for sometimes.
