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CHAPTER V
DATTANANDANAPRAHLĀDACARITRA
In Ara's congregation there were the Vişnu, the Bala, and the Pratyardhacakrin-Datta, Nandana, and Prahlāda, respectively. Their history is narrated (herewith).
Previous births of Nandana (2-3) - There is a city Susīmā, the ornament of East Videha of this Jambūdvīpa and there was a king there, Vasundhara. After he had guarded the earth for a long time, he took the vow under Muni Sudharma, and went to Brahmaloka after death.
Previous births of Datta (4-9) Now in this southern half of Bharata in Jambūdvipa there was a king, Mandaradhīra, in the city Silapura. He had a son, powerful, long-armed, an ocean of the jewels of good qualities, named Lalitamitra, the sun to the lotuses of friends. The minister Khala 88 affirmed, “He is arrogant," rejected him, and established the king's brother as heirapparent. Then Lalitamitra, disgusted with existence from this humiliation, became a mendicant under Muni Ghoşasena. Practicing austerities, evilly-disposed, he made a nidāna: "By this penance may I be able to kill the minister Khala." He died without confessing the nidāna and became a powerful god in the heaven Saudharma.
Birth of Prahlāda (10-11) After the minister Khala had wandered through the forest of births for a long time, he was born as the Prativispu Prahlāda, a lord of Vidyādharas, in the city Sinhapura, the tilaka of the north row on Mt. Vaitādhya in this Jambūdvīpa.
38 6. Pre-birth of Prahlāda.
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