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tigress fell like lightning on Sukošala first and knocked him to the ground by the blow of her leap from a distance. Splitting his skin repeatedly with the hooks of her nails with the sound, 'cațat, cațiti,' wicked, she drank his blood unsatisfied, like a deserttraveler drinking water. After tearing his flesh again and again with her fangs with the sound 'trațat, trațiti,' she devoured it like a poor woman a cucumber. Cruel, she made his bones the guests of her teeth, making the sound 'kațat, kațiti,' like an elephant crunching sugar-cane. Thinking, "She is an assistant in the destruction of karma," the muni did not blench, but had a coat of mail of hair erect from joy all over. While he was being eaten by the tigress, he reached pure meditation and, omniscience having arisen at that time, Muni Sukošala reached emancipation. Muni Kirtidhara, whose omniscience had arisen, in turn reached the place which is the abode of pure happiness.
Story of Naghușa and Sinhikā (66–85) Now Citramālā, King Sukošala's wife, bore a son, Hiranyagarbha, the joy of the family. When he, who had been king from the time he was in the womb, grew up, gazelle-eyed Mrgāvati became his wife. Mrgāvati bore King Hiranyagarbha a son named Naghuşa, like another (Naghusa) 142 in form. One day, Hiranyagarbha saw a gray hair on his head, which was like a pledge of approaching old age. Feeling disgust with existence immediately, the king installed his son Naghuşa on the throne and took the vow under Muni Vimala...
Sinhikā was the wife of the man-lion Naghuşa and he ruled his ancestral kingdom, delighting in her. One day, Naghuşa went to conquer the kings in the north country and left Queen Sinhikā in his own realm. Thinking, “Naghuşa is not here,” the kings in the south besieged
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