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Chapter-2: Collection of Examples
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I forgive all living beings, may all forgive me. My friendship is with all beings, I have no enmity with anyone. ||79||
Nothing is mine, nor am I anyone's. I renounce even the sense of "mine" that I have created. ||80||
How many, how many, I, the foolish one, have indulged in sinful acts. Let that be false, my wrongdoing, I am now free from attachment. ||81||
Whatever evil deeds I have done in the states of godhood, humanity, animalhood, and hell, may the glorious hero, the Arhat, be my refuge. ||82||
Having performed such worship, he renounced the fourfold [food, etc.] and then, with a focused mind, he bowed down. ||83||
Then, a friend of Varuna, a false seer, came out from outside and, approaching Varuna, said this. ||84||
Friend! I am also now bought by your kindness. I have taken refuge in the meditation that you have practiced, even though I did not know it. ||85||
He who is devoted to bowing down, devoted to the Dharma and meditation, attained samadhi and, in the state of samadhi, Varuna passed away. ||86||
In that celestial plane, called Arunabha, which is as vast as four palas, he will be reborn, having fulfilled his lifespan, in the state of a Videha. ||87||
Even though he had practiced ignorance, Varuna, through his path, was reborn as a human being in a good family. ||88||
Having attained humanhood again in the state of a Videha, in a good family, he will worship the path of liberation and attain the state of liberation. ||89||
When Varuna was killed, the soldiers of the Chetaka army became twice as enthusiastic for battle, like a boar that has been touched by a stick. ||90||
With the Ganarajas as their leaders, the soldiers of the Chetaka army, with their unyielding, sharp-beaked army, attacked the lower region with anger. ||91||
Seeing his own army being attacked, the Kunika, like a lion struck by a clod of earth, ran forward with anger. ||92||
Playing in the battlefield like a lotus, the Kunika, the valiant elephant, threw the enemy forces in all directions like petals of a lotus. ||93||
Knowing the Kunika to be invincible, Chetaka, filled with great anger, aimed his divine arrow, a treasure of valor, at him. ||94||
From there, Hari, the lord of the army, pierced the Kunika's vajra armor in front and struck his iron armor in the back. ||95||
Stretching his bowstring, the king of Vaishali also released an arrow, but it was deflected by the vajra armor. ||96||
Seeing that even the infallible arrow was ineffective, the soldiers of the Chetaka army thought that their merit had been exhausted. ||97||
Chetaka, the truthful one, did not release a second arrow. He retreated and fought again on the second day. ||98||
Chetaka's arrow was again ineffective on the second day. Thus, a very fierce battle took place between the two for many days. ||99||
Eighty lakhs plus a crore of soldiers on both sides perished and were reborn in the states of animals and hell. ||100||
Having lost their respective cities, the Ganarajas and Chetaka perished and entered the city. Kunika also blocked the city. ||101||
Then, the entire army of Champesh, mounted