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THE COMMUNITY OF THE FAITHFUL
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Some of the members of the animal kingdom who recollected their past lives followed the Lord, some of them adopting some of the minor vows of the laity.
Jaya Varmā who has been named among the Apostles of the WORLD TEACHER was the same who had married Sulochanā in the svayamvara, at Varānasi, and who had taken the Emperor's son, Arkakirti, a prisoner on the battle-field. Many years afterwards, he had come to worship the Source of Dharma one day, when he was filled with the spirit of world-flight and vairāgya (renunciation). Regarding the world as transient, and life, as the plaything of death, he determined, there and then, to free himself from the eternal bondage, went back to his kingdom, placed his son on the throne in place of himself, and took leave of Sulochanā and of all the other queens and kinsmen, and became a homeless Monk.
Sulochana was much affected by the incident ; she was very sad at heart, and accepting the counsel of Bharata's favourite queen, Subhadrā, who was noted as much for her wisdom as for her physical strength, she sought refuge from the afflictions of this world of tears at the worshipful feet of Brāhmi, and became a nun. At the end of her earthly life, she was reborn in the
