________________ INTRODUCTION sukumara and put some burning charcoal therein. The young monk bore all the pangs patiently and after destroying his acts attained perfection. Krsna learnt of the death of his brother from Aritthanemi and was told that the person who would die on the spot on seeing. Krsna enter the town, was responsible for his brother's death. Somila died as predicted on seeing Krsna enter the town. (8 50-65). There is nothing remarkable in the rest of the third chapter as also in the fourth. (8 66-73). The fifth chapter gives us ten narratives of ladies, eight of which are wives of Krsna and the last two wives of Samba. Krsna learnt from Aritthanemi that the town of Baravai was destined to be ruined by fire due to the folly of drunken Yadavas in insulting a sage. Krsna immediately issued a proclamation to the effect that whosoever desired to renounce the world and join the Order of monks or nuns would receive his consent and that he would look after their survivers if they were in distress. Paumavai was first to come forward; she was admitted by Aritthanemi and placed under the charge of his chief nun, Jakkhini; there she practised many Jain vows and penances and finally attained perfection ( 874-90). In the sixth chapter there are two interesting narratives. In the town of Rajagtha there lived a gardner, Arjunaka,and his wife Bandhumati. They were both devotees of a semi-divine yaksa Mudgarapani. The gardner was used to go to his garden
