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Kummāputta-Chariam
111 restraint and penance of sitting in a posture of meditation with knees upwards and head bent down in a place not far away from the Divine Mahāvīra. At that instant, the sage Gautama had faith, doubt and curiosity produced, sprung up and risen in mind). He started by getting up. Having done it, he went to the place where the Divine Mahāvīra was, and having approached the Divine Mahāvīra, he moved reverentially round him thrice. Having done it, he bowed down and greeted him. Having done it, (sitting neither far away, nor very near in his front, and waiting upon him with reverence and with waiting upon him with reverence and with hands folded] he said the following-“Divine sir, who was Kummāputta and how did he, residing in his house, obtain the infinite, unexcelled, unobstructed, unveiled, full, complete and excellent Kevalajñāna and Kevaladarśana ? Then the Divine monk Mahāvīra by a voice which extended to the distance of one Yojana and which was pleasing like nectar expounded as follows:
Gautama, hear with concentrated mind, the whole of the wonderful life of Kummāputta about which you are making me a query. (8)
In the continent Jambudvīpa, at the centre of the holy region of Bharata, there was the city named Durgamapura which was a principal city in the world. (9)
There, king Droņa, who excelled the Lord of the day by the splendour of his glory, was ruling over his kingdom without any trouble, being always free from enemies. (10)
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