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like legitimate sons, since they follow the good road of the father who took the vows; and I am like a purchased son. Even in such circumstances, if I become a mendicant, it is not at all unsuitable for me. For mendicancy even just taken is like a lamp for destroying darkness. Therefore, I shall resort now to my father's course, like a hansa to the course of a hansa, after I have gone to the city and given the kingdom to my son."
Accompanied by Queen Srimati who agreed about taking the vow, as if her mind were interwoven with his, he arrived at the city Lohargala. Then his son, eager for the throne, alienated the entire kingdom by money. Money penetrates everywhere like water. The King and Śrimati went to sleep at night with the thought that at dawn they would take the vow, and give the kingdom to their son. While they were happily asleep, their son infused poisonous incense into their room. Who could restrain it like fire coming out of a house? The husband and wife died at once from the excessive smoke of the incense which entered their nostrils like a hook for pulling out their lives.
Seventh incarnation as a twin in the Uttarakurus (716)
Then they were born among the Uttarakurus as twins, for the same fate results to those who have died with the same thought.
Eighth incarnation as a god (717)
After they had completed their life together in accordance with the country, they died and became gods devoted (to each other) in Saudharma.
Ninth incarnation as a physician Jīvānanda (718-88)
After he had enjoyed pleasures unceasingly, the soul of Vajrajangha fell from the exhaustion of his life-span, just as a snow-ball melts in the sun. In Jambudvipa, in the Videhas, in the city Kṣitipratiṣṭhita, he was born
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