Treasury of Jain Tales

SR No.: 006762
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 468
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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she was the goddess of that temple. She asked him who he was and on what business he had come to see her. Agaladatta showed her the sword. She quickly took him inside the temple but for whatever reason, her face looked sad and her heart felt dejected but she had managed to conceal her feelings before she got Agaladatta inside. She offered him a seat but Agaladatta was quite suspicious of the woman whose movements he watched very carefully. She busied herself, preparing a bed for him on the couch near by, she obviously took extreme care in preparing the bed. She asked him to sleep there. He however did not allow his sleep to overcome his faculties and when he saw that she was busy doing something else, he quietly slipped out of his bed and concealed himself elsewhere. There already was placed a big stone above the couch in such a way that it would fall right on the head of the person sleeping there and smash it. It was equipped with a secret catch which she operated from some other place. As she pulled the catch and the stone fell right down and smashed the bed, she said with a cheerful heart, "There, I have killed the slayer of my brother.", But Agaladatta quickly rushed forth from the place where he was hiding, seized her by the hair and assured her that he was very much safe and whole and that it would not be easy for any one, much less, for a daughter of a slave wench, to kill him. She in her own ways tried to beg for her life from Agaladatta. He assured her that she had nothing to fear from him. He later took her to the king's court. He was properly rewarded by the king and the people of the town expressed their grateful appreciation of the act of valour, skill and intelligence.