Anasuya Priyamvada Charitkatha PDF
Anasuya Priyamvada Charitkatha PDF
Shakuntala had left the ashram with some escorts. Her close friends,
Anasuya and Priyamvada, were left behind. They were roughly of the
same age and were quite beautiful themselves.
Anasuya: What do you plan to do? Do we stand there below the Big
Banyan tree and anoint ourselves with sandal-paste and other stuff?
Good husband material is rare (it holds true even today, same goes for
good wife material too).
Unknown to them both two brothers - broad shouldered, learned and of
royal heritage - were heading towards the ashram of Rishi Kanva.
Indrasen, the elder of the two, was a very learned person. He was tall, a
little dark but was very handsome. Chandrasen, the younger, was
endowed with a golden complexion, was equally learned, and was also
quite handsome. As the tension level was less those days; people were
generally quite calm and cool type. They had to learn their lessons,
almost all of them, as it was a ritual which can only be compared to the
coaching classes of the present days. And Gurus were not charging
much, except that the disciples had to do all the household chores at the
house of the Guru. They had to get up early in the morning, feed the
cows, help the Guru’s wife with the starting of the day’s cooking e.g.
getting good quality wood for lighting fire, fetching water, cleaning the
courtyard etc. And in between, they also had to tend to thousand other
small works. That was the fee.
Coming back to the present moment, Madan too landed exactly on the
spot where these people were there: Anasuya and Priyamvada;
Indrasen and Chandrasen. Here comes a twist in the story. Madan was
continuously doing his duty. Having an experimental temperament he
had tried his hand on couples from many species: birds, squirrels,
horses as well as the usual Homo sapiens. Incidentally, he had tried his
luck on Lord Shiva too, with a disastrous consequence. His quiver was
supposed to be always full (auto-filled from Heaven) but there was a
short supply of this special arrows from Heaven. Vishwakarma, the God
of Instruments, was paying over-time to the subordinate Gods in his
department, to keep up with this problem. It was a supply and demand
issue.
By now, both the couples had seen each other. Anasuya got attracted to
Chandrasen and Priyamvada to Indrasen. On the other hand, Madan
had a different plan - Anasuya should hitch to Indrasen and Priyamvada
to Chandrasen. As you may closely observe, even in those days,
complex love-quadrangles existed. Later on, now-a-days, copious
copying of these ideas is observed in various movies. But as no ancient
scriptwriter was smart enough to think of copyrights, such copying is
allowed freely.
Madan (to himself): What a rotten luck! Here I am within the bowshot of
two girls and two boys of right and ripe age – and I have to run out of
arrows now! This is not done! All I needed was one more arrow. Then I
would have completed the job and would have gone home to Rati and
could have relaxed with a little Somrasa (alcoholic drinks) and we could
have taken in a dance by Rambha, as well. (Rambha was a famous
dancer in the heaven.) What should I do? Should I send an SMS to
Brahma, and ask for his advice?
Madan, during his early age, was an apprentice at the workshop of God
Vishwakarma. He had a strong knowledge of Engineering Mechanics.
He took out the bow, put the arrow in it, pulled the string up to the
complete length, and let go. The arrow flew, and it struck people in this
order (please be careful and pay attention): it first struck Anasuya,
reflected from there to Chandrasen, then it again got reflected from there
to Priyamvada and then finally to Indrasen. Madan had used a special
technique (akin to Boomerang but more advanced) whereby the single
arrow kept bouncing from person to person and of course made them fall
in love with each other.
Now the real fun began. Anasuya and Chandrasen felt a strong
attraction towards each other. It was not exactly what Madan had
planned, but it was the best that could have been done with a single
arrow, in a short time span. Priyamvada and Indrasen also felt a strong
tug between their hearts’ inner core. No issues there either. The main
hitch came during the passage of the arrow between Chandrasen and
Priyamvada. Priyamvada got in to a double whammy. The arrow
passage was such that any two persons (of opposite sex of course) it
touches in sequence, fall in love. Priyamvada was caught between two
persons, Chandrasen on the left and Indrasen on the right. Please refer
to Picture below:
Madan realized that he cannot remain invisible and keep playing his
tricks. Time has come to show up. So he appeared in the scene. He had
his bow in one hand, quiver with no arrow in the other hand, and his
beatific smile.
Madan also felt quite distraught seeing Priyamvada crying her heart out.
He had a very soft heart and was very sympathetic towards the female
species. He had quite a few tumbles, with a huge number of girls, while
he was an apprentice God in this business, before Rati had come in the
scene. Rati, a tough lady, made sure that this got stopped.
Madan: What can I do, my dear? I had only one arrow and I also had to
complete my quota of the number of couples shot. Brahma had issued
me a sharply worded memo the other day, saying that due to my backlog
the total head-count of human race is going down. [Note: in those good
old days of sparse population, special incentives were offered for early
marriage and bigger families.]
Madan took back the arrow; he had to put some special spell on this
arrow to make it act in reverse gear, and then made Chandrasen and
Priyamvada stand next to each other. Then he let go of the arrow. It first
touched Priyamvada and then Chandrasen, in the reverse sequence.
And the bond was broken.
Just to sum up, now it was two pairs, Anasuya and Chandrasen;
Priyamvada and Indrasen. And by then Rishi Kanva had arrived. Much
before any fresh complexity start again, both the couples asked for
blessings from Rishi Kanva and got it too.
This part was somehow missing in all the stories of Shakuntala, but we
were determined that the real story comes out to all. And of course,
Chandrasen and Indrasen took their lovely brides home and there was a
re-marriage (each girl unto her chosen man) with lot of pomp. Both the
girls were quite clear that this marriage by arrow touching and a quick
garland exchange is not enough. It gives no scope to show the
ornaments. And they lived happily ever after!!!!