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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into a lion-man and began to scratch the ground with his terrible paws. The scratching sound was so terrific that the entire city of Aparakankā collapsed. Every structure in it fell to the ground, the fortification of the walls was completely destroyed and all the stalls, mansions and palaces crashed down. Padmanabha looked at the complete destruction of his capital and turned pale with fear. He went to Draupadi for advice. She scolded him for his stupidity and insolence in dealing with a super man like Krsna. But even then she assured him it would not be too late to repair matters. He should take a holy bath and in his wet garments offer oblations in the fire, collect all the inmates of the harem around him, take the most precious jewels with him as presents for Krsna and go up to him and surrender himself to him. He should lie prostrate at his feet. She told him that Krsna would take a very compassionate view of his misbehaviour and forgive him. She also offered to lead the procession of the penitents. Padmanābha expressed his willingness to do likewise and when she reached the place where Krsna was, he handed over Draupadi to Krsna who admonished him for his recklessness and insolence but at the same time assured him that he had no longer anything to fear from him. Krsna dismissed Padmanabha and took Draupadi with him in his chariot to the Pandavas. They all quickly crossed the Lavana-sea and came back to Jambūdvi pa in Bhărata-varsa.
In the same Dhätakikhanda-dvipa in the eastern half of Bhārata Varsa there was a city named Campā and its king was named Kapila Väsudeva. On the day when Krsna Vāsudeva fought Padmanabha, in the city of Aparakankā, he had blown his Pāñcajanya conch. That sound reached the city of Campā when king Kapila Väsudeva was listening to a religious discourse there given by the venerable Muni Suvrata. King Kapila's attention was diverted by the sound of the conch. He wondered whether, in the Dhātaki khanda-dvi pa another Vāsudeva, his own replica with a conch, which also was a replica of his own conch, producing exactly the same sound, could have been born. The venerable teacher noticed the distraction in the king's attention and asked him whether the thoughts that occurred in his mind were not regarding the sound of the conch and its owner. Kapila Väsudeva said he was quite right,