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everywhere. Princess Gangasena couldn't stand this due to jealousy. Envious thoughts haunted her mind such that, “Initially people were praising me, but now her. No, It shouldn't happen” She spread over false rumors about Sanga. She said that she observed fasts in the daytime whereas ate corpses at night. It is said that frequent repetition of a lie becomes truth. Thus people started believing her blame.
This rumour spread like forest fire. How could one doubt the words of holy and pious Gangasena. The people accepted it and started believing that Sanga wasn't a sadhvi but a monster.
· People uttered the proverb, "All that glitters is not gold. Sanga is pretending to be a sadhvi but in fact, she is monstrous. Shame on her.” Sanga, like a river of peace, harmony and tolerance, tolerated V T all this blemish "quietly and silently, considering it as the
consequences of her previous karma. She didn't have a feeling of anger and hatred for Gangasena. Princess Gangasena died without confessing and after death, she had to wander in many births. She was, once again, born as a princess in Gangapur and accepted asceticism. After the completion of this birth, she attained the status of devi in devlok. Later on, she was born as the daughter of Priyamati, the queen of King Harishen of Mritikapada city.
Once, king Harishen told her wife, “My dear ! I am leaving this kingdom and going to the forest for observing penance and self realization. You stay over here." The devoted queen Priyamati said, “Your path is my path of life, so I will also follow you.”
The king didn't knew that she was pregnant, so he happily
agreed. The couple acquainted the practice of penance. They started surviving by eating fruits in
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