DEVI BHAAGAVATAM - SKANDA 7
7#22a. The queen was sold!
Harischandran announced to the citizen of Kaasi," Hear!hear! Here this woman is for sale. Anyone can buy her paying her worth in gold. Anyone can take her home as his maid servant"
The people of Kaasi were surprised by this kind of human purchase. They asked him, " Who are you to sell this woman?"
Viswaamitra hurried there in the guise of an old brahmin. He told Harischandra, "I shall buy her as my servant. My wife is very old and unable to do the household chores. This woman can do them instead of her. I am ready to pay one crore (ten million) gold coins as her price."
Harischandra was shocked and stood like a statue. The old brahmin told him,
"This woman is worth that price. She is good-natured. She has all the thirty two lakshanas of a woman and has good conduct. So ten million gold coins the price fixed by the saastraas for such a woman."
The old brahmin poured the gold coins in front of Harischandra and tried to pull his wife away by holding her hair. Chandramati wanted to take leave of her only son and asked the old brahmin's permission to do so.
Her son tried to hug her but she told him,"You can't embrace me son. I am a slave now!" But her son could not be stopped from following her like a calf following a cow. He tripped on her clothes and fell down on the ground.
7#22a. The queen was sold!
Harischandran announced to the citizen of Kaasi," Hear!hear! Here this woman is for sale. Anyone can buy her paying her worth in gold. Anyone can take her home as his maid servant"
The people of Kaasi were surprised by this kind of human purchase. They asked him, " Who are you to sell this woman?"
Viswaamitra hurried there in the guise of an old brahmin. He told Harischandra, "I shall buy her as my servant. My wife is very old and unable to do the household chores. This woman can do them instead of her. I am ready to pay one crore (ten million) gold coins as her price."
Harischandra was shocked and stood like a statue. The old brahmin told him,
"This woman is worth that price. She is good-natured. She has all the thirty two lakshanas of a woman and has good conduct. So ten million gold coins the price fixed by the saastraas for such a woman."
The old brahmin poured the gold coins in front of Harischandra and tried to pull his wife away by holding her hair. Chandramati wanted to take leave of her only son and asked the old brahmin's permission to do so.
Her son tried to hug her but she told him,"You can't embrace me son. I am a slave now!" But her son could not be stopped from following her like a calf following a cow. He tripped on her clothes and fell down on the ground.