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श्येनकपोताख्यान (zyenakapotAkhyAna)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Śyena-kapotākhyāna(ṃ)]
(“the story of the hawk and the pigeon”). § 738b (Ānuśāsanik.): Bhīshma said: Once a pigeon, pursued by a hawk, dropped down from the skies and sought the protection of the Kāśi king R.-ṛ. Vṛshadarbha (or Uśīnara), etc. [cf. Śyenakapotīya 411 = III, 130 foll.), but here the birds are not Indra and Agni]. The three worlds together with Indra came to behold the king
he was bathed in a shower of nectar, etc.
D., G., and Aps. began to sing and dance around him, just, as they do around Brahmán
he then ascended a celestial chariot and proceeded to the eternal heaven. Blessing upon the reader.