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AN END TO THIS.) 0 VAIN AND FOOLISH ONE, IWA FUTURE ENCOUNTER, ONE EQUAL ‘TO ME, WILL HUMILIATE YOu, ‘BUT BANA WELCOMED THE CURSE AND LOOKED FORWARD TO MEETING A PEER IN FIGHT.A FEW DAYS LATER,USHA AND HER FRIENDS WERE PICKING FLOWERS IN’ THEIR FAVOURITE GROVE. THEY SET THEIR BASKETS DOWN AND LAY DOWN UNDER THE TREES.USHA WOKE UP WITH A START. HER FRIENDS WERE AT FIRST ‘STARTLED... LORD | WHERE ARE ‘BUT CHITRALEKHA, THE DAUGHTER OF ONE OF BANA?S MINISTERS AND | USHA *S CLOSE COMPAN-. ION, CAME TO HER RESCUE.WHEN THE OTHERS HAD GONE , SHE TURNED TO USHA. USHA DEGIDED TO CONFIDE IN HER. ‘A CERTAIN PRINCE, ‘CAME TO. MEIN TWANTED TO KEEP. HIM WITH ME, BUT HE DISAPPEARED Di LEAVING MECHITRALEKHA CONSOLED HER. | TS Pa = LAWAND YAKSHAS. 23 ,"} THEN WHEN AMONG THE VARIOUS PORTRAITS SHE PAINTED KRISHNA AND HIS, ‘SON PRADYUMNA — THESE 2 THEY RESEMBLED CLOSELY OF HER DREAM. USHA WAS ABASHED, BECA\ USE THE PRINCE[ AT LAST GHITRALEKHA DREW THE PORTRAIT OF ANIRUDDHA, SON OF PRADYUMNA. USHA, SUDDENLY SHY, CAST HER EYES DOWN. frais 1s IG) soon BE HERE’ (tan wit 1 SHOULD HAVE THEN CHITRALEKHA WITH THE KNOWN | SURELY, AMONG HELP OF HER YOGIC POWERS MEN, IT COULD ONLY CONVEYED HERSELF. HAVE” BEEN ONE OF THE 7 VALIANT. YADAVA, RACE. WHO COULD HAVE Dis.|CHITRALEKHA WENT AWAY, LEAVING USHA WITH ANIRUDDHA. WHERE AMT? ‘WHO ARE TAM USHA THE DAUGHTER OF BANA. MY" LOVE FOR YOU HAS BROUGHT ‘YOU HERE TO THIS PALACE AS MY HERE IN SECRECY ~YOU ARE, FREE TO LEAVE IF you ‘50 DESIRE.BUT ANIRUDDHA WAS NOT ABLE TO TAKE HIS EVES OFF THE LOVELY| USHA, THUS IMPRISONED BY THE TENDER ATTENTIONS OF USHA, ANIRUDDHA MARRIED HER. T CANNOT DREAM OF LEAVING You. | WOULD RATHER STAY] HERE AND DELIGHT IN YOUR COMPANY. ‘SHE ENTERTAINED HIM WITH ‘SONG AND DANCE:== AND FED HIM WITH THE CHOIGEST OF FOODS AND THE SWEETEST| OF woRD: IN MY DREAMS you i HAUNTED ME. IN FLESH \ ‘AND BLOOD "youBUT SUCH STOLEN HAPPINESS COULD NOT LAST FOR EVER NOT 1 SUSPECT,THEY WENT STRAIGHT TO BANA.| ‘0 KING, FORGIVEENOUGH | LET ME SEE THIS FOR MYSELF.BUT ANIRUDDHA Was, “AND SLEW ALL OF THEM QUICK. HE GRABBED A ‘BEFORE THEY COULD EVEN RE- GFE LSE WHAT ws,USHA, LEAVE. THE CHAMBER) BANA HELD ANIRUDDHA WITH SOME OF HISHAS MY OWE OW FATHER | |.BOUND HIM. wey Dip 1 KILLED | | FROM HEAD EVER ASK You TO TOE WITH TO BRING HIN LIVE [SERPENTS | [| MEANWHILE ALL_DWARAKA WAS UPSET ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ANIRUDDHIA. HAVE PASSED AND THERE. IS NO TRACE OF HIM. ‘COULD HAVE HAPPENED To. HIM 2NARADA CAME TO SEE KRISHNA, AND. WITH NEWS. ‘ANIRUDDHA Js. IN THE COURT OF BANA. BANA HAS BOUND Him with, LIVE SERPENTS AND IMPRISONED HIMKRISHNA CALLED A COUNCIL OF ALL HIS MEN. KRISHNA, PRADYUMNA AND SATVAKI WITH HUNDREDS OF WARRIORS SET GUT FOR BANA'S KINGDOM TO RESCUE ANIRUDDHA.‘BANA"S RAGE KNEW NO BOUNDS HE CAME OUT WITH AN EQUALLY LARGE ARMY AND ) A GREAT BATTLE ENSUED. “SHIVA WHO HAD PROMISED BANA HIS PROTECTION AT ALL TIMES,CAME TOHIS AID» WITH HIS SON, KARTIKEVALKRISHNA FOUGHT WITH SHIVA... PRADYUMNA WITH TKARTIREVA sveALL THE CELESTIALS, HEADED BY BRAHMA, THE SAGES, THE GANDHARVAS, THE APSARAS AND YAKSHAS CAME IN THEIR _|~ CHARIOTS TO WATCH THE MIGHTY BATTLE] KRISHNA WAS EASILY THE BEST WAR= RIOR. INNO TIME AT ALL HE DESTROVED SHivA"S WEIRD HORDES WITH THE HELP| OF JRIABHANASTRA WHICH KEPT SHIVA STUPEFIED.PRADYUMNA VANQUISHED KARTIKEVA WITH EASE ‘SHIVATS CURSE LIES HEAVY UPON ‘MME NOW. BUTT WILL NOT GIVE UPWITH His THOUSAND ARMS, HE DREW FIVE HUNDRED BOWS AT THE SAME TIME AND SET TWO ARROWS IN EA ‘BUT KRISHNA WAS TOO QUICK FOR HIM. WITH HIS. DISCUS HE CUT OFF NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY= SIX OF BANA’S ARMS, KILLED HIS CHARIOTEER AND HORSES, AND” DESTROYEDT PLEAD WITH | [KRISHNA SMILED YOU TO SPARE | | AT SHIVA. 7715 OnLy To | HUMBLE HM [Thar i Have: | CUT OFF ALL EXCEPT FOUR OF His ARMS, ‘AND TO RELIEVE THE EARTH OF HER BURDEN,| HAVE DESTROVED HIS ARMY. HE STILL HAS FOUR ARMS) LEFT. BESIDES GRANT HIM. TMMORTALITY AND EVERLAST- ING YOUTH.‘SHIVA TURNED TO ONE OF HIS SURVIVING FOLLOWERS. ‘KRISHNA HAS PARDONED AS WELL AS BLESSED YOU. BRING HIS GRANDSON} AND YOUR DAUGHTER TO HIM. BANA LEFT THEM AND RETURNED WITH USHA AND ANIRUDDHATALL DWARAKA 1S, ANXIOUS FOR THE RETURN OF ANIRUDDIIA WE SHALL SET OFF IMMEDIATELY, ITHEN,PLAGING USHA AND ANIRUDOHA IN FRONT OF HIM, THE VICTORIOUS KRISHNA, ALONG WITH gPRADYUMNA AND SATYAKI, RETURNED TO DWARAKA.ANIRUDDHA Pare oireren ra Luster ieee oie oot cag eabet Mel ernton hat tee Dee eee ey “shan nt ih ed hg sot nk Cont we gun Sngoats ben ES. eee Ingres rd ng outs nr nv hu rah" ARAN MRT, ON MENTOR INFOSYS