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CHAPTER ONE
The omniscient explained: “In your birth as Dhana, she was your wife Dhanavati; in Saudharma she was your friend; she was the wife Ratnavati of Citragati; your friend in Māhendra; your wife Prītimati in your birth as Aparājita; a god-friend in Arana; in this seventh birth she became again your wife Yasomati. So your affection for her originated in other births. Now after going to Aparājita 40 and falling, you will be the twenty-second Tirthanātha, Neminātha, here in Bhāratavarşa. She, named Rājimati, devoted to you without being married to you, will adopt mendicancy at your side and will attain emancipation. Yaśodhara and Guņadhara, your 'brothers in former births, and your minister, Matiprabha, will become emancipated, after having attained the rank of gañadharas.”
Sankha installed his son Puņdarika on the throne and took the vow at his (Śrişeņa's) side with his brothers, Yaśomati, and the minister. In course of time Sankha finished his studies, practiced severe penance, and acquired Tīrthak’tkarma by the sthānas,41 devotion to the Arhats, et cetera.
Eight incarnation as a god (534) At the end Muni Sankha observed the pādapopagamana and went to Aparājita. They, Yasomati and others, went to the same Aparājita by the same procedure.
40 529. A palace in the highest heaven, the Pancānuttara. 41 533. For the sthānas, see I, pp. 80 ff.
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