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Not knowing his inner detachment, Udayasundara, with a fondness for jest, said, his lips adorned with the gleam of his teeth:
“If you accept this initiation, then I too will be your friend. Oh, Kumar! You will be adorned with the glory of a Shraman.”
“So be it,” said Vajrabahu, adorned with the ornaments of marriage, and he descended from the elephant and ascended the mountain.
Then the women, with their large eyes, wept loudly. Large drops of tears, like strings of broken pearls, fell from their eyes.
With tears in his eyes, Udayasundara said, “Be pleased, Deva! What are you doing? I was only jesting.”
Vajrabahu, soothing him with sweet words, said, “Oh, one with a heart of good intentions! I was falling into a well, and you saved me.
There is no other friend like you in the three worlds. Oh, beautiful one! It is inevitable that those who are born must die, and those who die must be reborn.
This machine of birth and death, more fickle than lightning, waves, and the tongue of a venomous serpent, keeps turning constantly.
Why don’t you see the life of this world, consumed by sorrow? Enjoyments are like dreams, life is like a bubble, affection is like the glow of twilight, and youth is like a flower. Oh, Bhadra! Your jest has become like nectar to me.
What is drunk in jest? Does it not cure disease? Since you have turned me towards my welfare, you are my friend today.
I was engrossed in the ways of the world, but today you have made me detached from it. Now, I take initiation. Do as you please.”
Saying this, he went to the Muni Raja named Gunasagara, and bowing at his feet, with folded hands, he said, “Oh, Master! My mind has been purified by your grace, so today I wish to leave this terrible prison of the world.”
1. Yajnatvattamaho-m., j. - Manyatvatta-b. 2. Kumarah m. 3. Vaivāha-m. 4. Pitam aushadham m. 5. Visham m. 6. Sa tvameṣodyame bandhu -m. 7. Caranānūce m. 8. Samsarakarāgṛhāt. Bhavatārakāt m.