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## The Twentieth Chapter
Hearing the words of the Acharya, Kundalamandita, being of weak fortune, was unable to even perform the Anuvrata. || 104 ||
Prostrating to his Guru with his head, he renounced meat and honey, and embraced the proper vision of the Sharanagata. || 105 ||
After paying homage to the Guru and the Digambaras, he left that country, filled with thoughts. || 106 ||
His maternal brother, a man of great prowess like Yama, will surely be my support in this calamity. I will become a king again and surely conquer my enemy. || 107 ||
Carrying this hope, he set out, sorrowful, towards the south. || 108 ||
As he journeyed, burdened with fatigue and other sorrows, diseases arose in his body, due to the ripening of past karmas. || 109 ||
His joints began to break, and his vital organs were torn apart. Death, the refuge of all the world, approached him. || 110 ||
At the moment Kundalamandita released his life, the Chittottsava, who had become a deva in heaven, fell from heaven due to the depletion of his remaining merit. || 111 ||
By fate, both these beings were born in the womb of Videha, the queen of King Janaka. Oh, Shrenika! See the strange workings of karma! || 112 ||
In the meantime, that Pingala Brahmin, having died well, became a powerful Asura named Mahakala, due to the power of his austerities. || 113 ||
As soon as he was born, he remembered his past life through his knowledge of the future, and considered the fruits of Dharma. He also wondered where Chittottsava had been born, and he knew all this through his knowledge of the future. || 114 ||
Then, after a while, he thought, "What do I have to do with that wicked one? Where is that Kundalamandita who caused me to fall into the ocean of separation and made me suffer?" || 115 ||
He knew through his knowledge of the future that Kundalamandita was in the womb of King Janaka's wife, along with the being of Chittottsava. || 116 ||
He thought, "What is the purpose of this Devi, who is carrying two beings in her womb, and is now dead?" || 117 ||