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always, like a gardener, he must present them on suitable occasions of the gods, et cetera. So performing various tasks, your son may take his kingdom again and rejoice in my favor."
Sahasrāra said, “He will do so," and Rāvaņa released Śakra from his prison and entertained him like his own brother. Returning to Rathanūpura, Indra was exceedingly depressed. For loss of prestige to those having prestige is harder to bear than death.
One day a jñānin, Nirvāṇasangama, stopped there and Indra went to pay him homage.
"Blessed One, because of what act did I suffer this humiliation from Rāvaņa," asked by Śakra, the muni said:
Previous incarnation of Indra (635-647) "In the past there was a Vidyadhara-chief in the beautiful Ariñjayapura, named Jvalanasinha. His wife was named Vegavati. They had a beautiful daughter, Ahilyā, and all the Vidyadhara-lords came to her svayarvara. Anandamālin, lord of Candrăvartapura, came there and Taqitprabha, lord of Sūryāvartapura, who was you. Ignoring you, though you had come together, Ahilyā chose Anandamālin of her own accord and you were humiliated. From that time you were jealous of Anandamālin, thinking, 'He married Ahilyā, though I was present.'
One day Anandamālin took the vow from disgust with the world and wandered with great sages, practicing severe penance. One time in the course of his wandering, he went to Mt. Rathāvarta. You saw him and remembered Ahilyā's svayamvara. Absorbed in meditation, he was bound and beaten many times by you, but, immovable as a mountain, he was not moved in the least from meditation. But his brother, chief of ascetics, possessing illustrious qualities, saw (your actions), and discharged a hot flash 181 at you, like a stroke of lightning at a tree. Pacified by
181 643. See I, n. 111.
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