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The Eighty-Seventh Chapter
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Thereafter, the queen Susima asked the chief of the ascetics, the lord of the congregation, about the connection of her previous births. 384 The one who is the kinsman of the disciples without any reason, enlightening his lotus-like mind with the multitude of the rays of his speech, spoke thus. 385 In the former part of the Dhātakīkhaṇḍa, in the Prāgvidehā, there is a renowned region called Maṅgalāvatī, which is the sole object of enjoyment for the embodied beings. 386 There is a city named Ratnasañcaya in it, whose protector was the king Viśvadeva, and his beautiful queen was called Śrīmatyanuṇdarī. 387 The king of Ayodhyā killed him in battle, due to which the queen, though forbidden by the ministers, entered the fire and died. 388 Becoming a Sūrī (celestial being) on the Vijayārḍha mountain, she lived for ten thousand years among the Vyantaras. At the end of that, wandering according to her karmas, 389 in this Bhārata-dvīpa, in Śāligrāma, she became the daughter of the Yakṣa-devī, the intelligent Devī, born to the Yakṣa couple Devasena and Devasena. 390 Once, taking refuge in the sage Dharmasena, the virtuous one, and giving sustenance to the fasting monk for a month, 391 she went to the forest for recreation, and due to fear of rain, entered a cave, where she was swallowed by a python, due to which the Harivṛṣa region was produced. 392 Entering into those enjoyments, she became a Nāgī (female serpent), and then fell from there to this Videha region, where she was born as Puṣkalāvatī, the daughter of King Aśoka and Queen Somaśrī. 393-394 At the end of the Jinavarṇa-upānte, she took initiation, and after performing severe austerities for a long time and observing the Kanakāvalī fast, 395 she became a celestial being in the Māhendra heaven, enjoyed the pleasures of the gods, and at the end of her life, fell from there and became the daughter of the virtuous Queen Sujyeṣṭhā, the wife of King Surāṣṭravarddhana. 396-397 You, the auspicious one, are now the beloved queen of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the king of Surāṣṭra, and you are flourishing with joy. 398 Hearing about the connection of her previous births, Susima the queen attained satisfaction, for who does not attain contentment upon hearing about their successive growth?
Thereafter, Queen Lakṣmaṇā also paid obeisance to the sage and desired to hear about her births.