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Articles: Devotion | Pururavasu and Urvashi
- Mr. Venkata Ramanamurty Mallajosyula
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Urvashi answered : ”Do not die, Pururavas, do not rush away! Let not the cruel wolves devour thee! Take it not to heart, for lo! There may not be friendship with any woman; women’s hearts are as hyenas’. Go to thy home again. ”But a memory came intointo her mind of her life with him, and a little she relented; she said to Pururavas: ”Come , then, on the last night of the year from now; then shalt thou stay with me one night, and by then, too, this son of thine shall have been born.”
Pururavas sought her on the last night of the year: there was a golden palace, and the gandharvas cried him, “Enter,” and they sent Urvashi to him. She said: ”When morning dawns the gandharvas will offer thee a boon, and thou must make thy choice. ”Choose thou for me,” he said, and she replied : “Say,’Let me be one of your selves.”
When morning came, ”Let me be one of your very selves, ”he said. But they answered : Forsooth the sacred fire burns not upon earth which could make a man as one of us. ”They gave him fire in a dish and said: Sacrifice therewith, and thou shalt become a Gandharva like our selves. ”He took the fire, and took his son, and went his way. He set down the fire in the forest, and went with the boy to his own home. When he returned, “Here I am back, ”he said, bit lo! The fire had vanished. What had been the fire was an Asvattha tree, and what the dish, a Shami tree. Then he sought the Gandharvas again. They counselled him: ”Make fire with an upper stick of the Asvattha tree, and a lower stick of the Shami; the fire thereof shall be the very fire thou didst receive from us.” Then Pururavas made fire with sticks of the Asvattha and the Shame, and making offerings therewith, he was made one of the gandharvas and dwelt with Urvashi evermore.
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