Kuvalayamala Part 2

SR No.: 002778
Original Sutra Author: Udyotansuri
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 368
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 12 MB

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KUVALAYAMĀLĀ
blessed with dharmalābha. The Preceptor welcomed them along with others who arrived there and saluted him. The king wondered why the preceptor, so gifted as he was, had taken to renunciation. The preceptor started his discourse on the nature of saṁsāra which itself is an enough cause for renunciation. He continued how hissă of various types committed through passions and different pretexts leads to hells where the doer himself has to suffer (35.24 to 36.6). The hells are full of tortures (described $8 75-78) as preached by the omniscient; even in the various subhuman species there are many miseries (described $$ 79-80); - the human birth, with its advantages, is not without its pitfalls and pangs (described $8 81-82); and the birth in heavens too has its limitations (described $$ 83-84). This was in reply to the thoughts in the mind of Purandaradatta who received some instructions on virtues and their cultivation (43.23 f.) and was taught how the words of Jina would rescue one from the misery of Samsāra and lead to eternal bliss. The minister Vāsava was told that the cause of wanderings in this miserable Samsāra consists of krodha, māna, māyā and lobha (and also moha) which are defined (44.17-21) and the four grades (anantānubandhi, apratyākhyānāvarana, pratyakhyānāvarana and samjvalana) of which (44.22 to 45.37) are illustrated (Pages 31.3-45.5; * 11.6-* 13.4).
1. ANGER--BIOGRAPHY OF CANDASOMA: Anger leads to mental unbalance whereby one kills even one's brother and sister, as seen from the career of this angry-looking man seated here, Dharmanandana continued, which deserves to be heard.
In the settlement Ragadā by name (described 45.17-20), close to Kāñcī, the capital of the country of Kāñcī of Dravidas, there lived a poor twice-born Sušarmadeva. His eldest son was Bhadraśarmā, who, due to his naughtiness in childhood and illtreatment of other boys, came to be called significantly Candasoma, the one seated here. The parents married him to a suitable girl and, leaving to him the responsibility of the house, went on a pilgrimage to the Ganges. His beloved Nandinī reached the bloom of youth and thus attracted the eyes of the village youths. Candasoma grew jealous of her, though she was chaste of character; with the advent of the autumn (described 46.5-8), a party of actors reached that village; and Haradatta, the leading mayahara, arranged a show for which the whole village was invited. When people started going thither, Candasoma, equally eager to attend the show (to which his brother too had already gone), started worrying about the safety of his blooming beloved, whom he entrusted to his sister Śrīsomā, and went to the show. Despite Nandini's warning, Srīsomā also went to the show. There in the audience (ranga), Candasoma heard amorous whisperings of a couple; and from an indirect mention of the word canda, he suspected that his beloved had come with her lover to the show. He got a timely hint from a song; and, burning with anger, he went home and waited hidden behind the door with a stick to strike his wife on her return. As the show was over by this time, both his brother and sister returned home; and mistaking them for the suspected couple, he hit them both who fell dead. Hearing the noise, Nandinī came from inside and pointed out to him what havoc he had made. He was full of remorse, started lamenting over the past, and decided to immolate himself on their funeral pyre ($ 93).