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## The Most Excellent Birth
Then, in the city of Gaganavallabha, the daughter of Vidyunvega, named Vidyumati, gave birth to a daughter named Vinayashri, who was a great light. She was renowned for her virtues of humility and was the wife of Mahendravikrama, the king of Nitya-loka.
Having heard the Dharma from the Charanas and Shramanas, Mahendravikrama renounced the world and appointed his son, Nandana Harivahana, to the kingdom. Vinayashri, too, renounced the world and performed the Sarvabhadra fast, and through its power, she became the wife of Saudharmendra, the holder of the five-fold state of existence.
She was born as Gandhari, the daughter of Merumati, the queen of Indragiri, the king of Gandhara, in the city of Pushkalavati.
"You will attain liberation in your third birth," said the omniscient Nemijinenadra, the son of the great sage, to Gandhari. She bowed to him and then, bowing to Gauri, the seventh wife of Krishna, she asked about her previous births. The omniscient one, knowing all things, told her about her past lives.
In the city of Ibyapura, in this Bharat Kshetra, there lived a wealthy merchant named Dhandeva. He had a wife named Yashasvini. One day, Yashasvini was standing on the roof of her palace when she saw two Charana monks, endowed with supernatural powers, flying through the sky.
Seeing them, she remembered all her past births. She realized that she had been the wife of Anand, a wealthy merchant, in the city of Nandashoka, in the Videha Kshetra, located in the western part of the eastern Meru, in the Dhataki-khanda island. There, she and her husband had given food to the sage Mitasagara, and as a result, she had received the five wonders performed by the gods. Once, they had drunk rainwater that had fallen from the sky, but it was poisoned, and they both died.
After death, she became an Arya in Devakuru, then the beloved of Aishaneindra, and then she was born as Yashasvini here. Knowing this, Yashasvini, filled with fear of the world, bowed to the sage Subhadra and took the vow of Proshadhavrat. After death, she became the queen of Indra, the king of the first heaven, who holds the five-fold state of existence.