![]() ![]() When, approaching your wife lustfully, you will unite with her even as I had done with mine, in that very state shall you have to go to the world of the spirits. But, senseless man, as you have killed me, disguised as a deer, at such a time, your fate shall certainly be even like mine. You have slain me without knowing that I am a brahmin the sin of having slain a brahmin shall not, therefore, be yours. As you have been cruel unto a couple of opposite sexes, death shall certainly overtake you as soon as you feel the influence of sexual desire. Yet you have killed me, O king, for which I will curse you certainly. I was living in the woods in peace with all. What have you done, O best of men, in killing me who have given you no offence? I am, O king, a muni who lives on fruits and roots, though disguised as a deer. But that effort of mine has been rendered futile by you. O king, with this my mate I was engaged in the gratification of my sexual desire. What man of wisdom and virtue is there that can kill a deer while engaged in such an act? The time of sexual intercourse is agreeable to every creature and productive of good to all. But, instead of acting so cruelly, you should have waited till the completion of my act of intercourse. I do not blame you for your having killed a deer, or for the injury you have done to me. The deer then addressed Pandu and said, "O king, even men that are slaves to lust and wrath, and void of reason, and ever sinful, never commit such a cruel act as this. Pierced by Pandu while engaged in the act of intercourse, he fell down to the ground, uttering cries that were of a man, and began to weep bitterly. That was no deer that Pandu struck at, but a rishi's son of great ascetic merit who was enjoying his mate in the form of a deer. Beholding the animals, the monarch pierced them both with five of his sharp and swift arrows winged with golden feathers. One day Pandu, while roaming about in the woods that teemed with deer and wild animals of fierce disposition, saw a large deer that seemed to be the leader of a herd serving his mate. Here in more detail is the story of the Pandu and the brahmin: ![]() The king was stricken with fear he immediately took vows of celibacy and gave all his possessions to brahmins then he went away to live in a solitary place with his two wives. The sage was wounded mortally, and before he died he assumed his wonted form and foretold that Pandu, whom he cursed, would die in the arms of one of his wives. ![]() One day he shot arrows at two deer which he beheld sporting together, but they were, as he discovered to his sorrow, a holy brahmin and his wife in animal guise. There, as fate had decreed, he met with dire misfortune. He loved well to go a-hunting, and at length he retired to the Himalaya mountains with his two wives to pursue and slay deer. The glories of King Bharata's reign were revived by Pandu, who achieved great conquests and extended his territory. She had been purchased by Bhishma for the king with much gold, many jewels, and elephants and horses, as was the marriage custom among her people. Madri came from the country of Madra, and was black-eyed and dusky-complexioned. Trembling with love, she placed the flower garland upon his shoulders. Kunti, who was comely to behold, chose King Pandu at her swayamvara. ![]()
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