Chapter
21
Instructions
by Mahârâja Prithu
(4) The citizens and
many a beautiful radiating virgin with tinkling earrings,
came to meet him equipped with lamps and countless
articles of worship as a welcome.
Chapter
22
Prithu
Mahârâja's Meeting with the Four
Kumâras
(6)
The brothers elder than S'iva [see
3-12: 4-7
], seated on the golden throne, were like fire on the
altar and pleased with them, he respectfully and with
restraint addressed them.
Chapter
23 Mahârâja
Prithu's Going Back Home
(6)
Like
the great sages took the hero the five austerities of the
summerheat [from the sun above and from the fires
from four directions], the downpour of rains in the
rainy season, to be up to his neck submerged in the water
in winter and the sleeping on the bare earth.
(29) Maitreya said:
'While the wives of the denizens of heaven were thus in
praise, reached the wife the place where the husband had
gone to; it was the topmost position of the self-realized
that the son of Vena under the protection of the
Infallible One had obtained.
Chapter
24 The
Song Sung by Lord S'iva
