DEVI BHAAGAVATAM - SKANDA 3
3#19d. The bride’s ideas
All the kings reached the swayamvara mandapam decorated beautifully. They looked like the Devas sitting on their thrones. The musical instruments like veena, maththlam and others were played pleasingly.
The bride was decorated in new silk, gold ornaments and fresh flower garlands. But her face was very sad. The queen asked her, “Why are you so sad my dear girl? Go to the mandapam with a garland and select an excellent king for your husband.
Sasikala had her own ideas about her wedding and told her mother, “I will not go to the mandapam with a garland in front of the assembled kings. Each of them will look at me as a prospective bride, with lust-filled eyes.
I will be made to feel like a woman put up for sale. I can’t do it. It does not befit a pativratha. This has been happening long since. All the same I do not approve of it. I have already selected my husband. Please perform my wedding with Sudarsanan immediately.”
Sasikala begged her mother – the queen.
3#19d. The bride’s ideas
All the kings reached the swayamvara mandapam decorated beautifully. They looked like the Devas sitting on their thrones. The musical instruments like veena, maththlam and others were played pleasingly.
The bride was decorated in new silk, gold ornaments and fresh flower garlands. But her face was very sad. The queen asked her, “Why are you so sad my dear girl? Go to the mandapam with a garland and select an excellent king for your husband.
Sasikala had her own ideas about her wedding and told her mother, “I will not go to the mandapam with a garland in front of the assembled kings. Each of them will look at me as a prospective bride, with lust-filled eyes.
I will be made to feel like a woman put up for sale. I can’t do it. It does not befit a pativratha. This has been happening long since. All the same I do not approve of it. I have already selected my husband. Please perform my wedding with Sudarsanan immediately.”
Sasikala begged her mother – the queen.