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चन्द्रश्री (candrazrI)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
चन्द्र—श्री
m.
N.
 of a prince,
VP.
चन्द्र—श्री
f.
N.
 of a woman,
Kathās.
 lviii, 58.
Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid
English
Candraśrī, n. of a Bodhisattva: Gv 〔4.3〕.
Wordnet
Sanskrit
Synonyms:
 चन्द्रश्री
noun
एका स्त्री ।
"चन्द्रश्री कथासरित्सागरे उल्लिखिता अस्ति"
Synonyms:
 चन्द्रश्री
noun
एकः राजपुत्रः ।
"चन्द्रश्री विष्णुपुराणे उल्लिखितः अस्ति"
पुराणम्
English
चन्द्रश्री / CANDRAŚRĪ. A woman, who, though actually in love with her husband enjoyed life with her paramour. candraśrī is the heroine of a story narrated in the kathāsaritsāgara to prove that the interest married women take in clandestine relationship is only due to fleeting temptations. candraśrī was the wife of a vaiśya called Bālavarman, who lived in the city of Pratiṣṭhāna. One day, looking out through the windows in her house she saw the very handsome vaiśya youth called Śīlahāra and felt great desire for him. She brought him secretly to the house of her companion and satisfied her desire. When their meeting became a routine affair her relations and servants knew about it. And, her husband alone was unaware of it. Once he became ill with severe fever. Even while he was in his death-bed candraśrī continued her affair with the paramour. When one day she was with her paramour thus, she was told that her husband was no more. At once she took leave of him, returned home and committed suicide by jumping into the funeral pyre of the husband. (kathāsaritsāgara, Śaktiyaśolambaka, Taraṅga 2).