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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up to meet Sanatkumāra but in the meantime she remembered the words of an astrologer that she would be the wife of the man who has killed her brother. So she approached Sanatkumāra in a gentle manner. With Sunanda's consent he married her. At this juncture two Vidyadharas came to Sanatkumāra and warned him of an impending attack by Asanivega, the father of Vajravega. He was collecting an army of Vidyadharas against him. A chariot well equipped for the fight was also kept ready for him; Sandhyāvali taught him the magic science Pannatti (Prajñpti) and Sanatkumāra thus equipped and helped by the two kindly Vidyadharas. Candavega and Bhānuvega and their soldiers, started his battle with Asanivega's army. Sanatkumāra had his fierce encounter with the mighty Asanivega, who hurled the Great Snake missile but the prince beat it back by the Garuda missile. Thereupon the Vidyadhara chief shot out the missile of Fire but the prince repulsed it with the missile of Varuna. Asanivega came out with the missile of the Wind and Sanatkumāra rendered it ineffective by his missile of the Mountain. Asanivega now started attacking the prince with his bow and arrows but the prince managed to break his bow; thereupon the battle of the swords began but soon enough Sanatkumāra chopped off Asanivega's hand. Then followed boxing and wrestling. The prince finally severed the head of the Vidyadhara from his body by his extraordinary disc and secured his victory. Every one hailed it and Sanatkumāra accompanied by his Vidyadhara heroes descended from the air, where this fierce battle was fought, into the magnificent palace where he was appropriately welcomed by his two newly wedded brides, Sunanda and Sandhyāvali. Then the whole party proceeded to mount Vaitādhya where Sanatkumāra was enthroned as king of all fairies.
One day Sanatkumāra's faithful companion Candavega told him what the sage 'Accimāli' (Arcismälin) had announced: "Your hundred girls here and the eight girls of Bhānuvega a Universal Sovereign will marry and he who is called Sanatkumāra has been pointed out by the Jinas as the Fourth Universal Monarch and he will go to the lake Mānasa in only a month from now; when he steps out there from his bath the Yaksa Asitākṣa who is his enemy from a former birth will see him, regarding him as come from