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destroys the existing chains of thraldom in the course of a few re-incarnations. The re-incarnations, too, that are undergone after the acquisition of the Right Faith, are all very joyous and delightful, and steadily raise up the will-power to defy suffering and mishap, in spite of the pleasures they afford one in the heavens and on earth.
The Achyutendra became the son of King Bajra Sen and Queen Srikāntā, on the termination of his life in the sixteenth heaven. He was named Bajranābhi. His body was resplendent, and shone like bright gold; he had many auspicious marks on his person, and was unusually intelligent and sagacious.
The Lion, the Pig, the Monkey and the Mongoose were similarly born to Rani Srikāntā, as Vijaya, Vejayanta, Jayanta and Aprăjita, respectively, and thus now became the brothers of Bajranābhi (the Bajrajangha of a former life)!
The souls of the four especial favourites of Bajrajangha, namely, of Mativara, the minister. Akampana, the generalissimo, Adanada, the master of ceremonies, and Dhana Mitra, the financier, also took birth as Bajranābhi's younger brothers, and were named, respectively, Subāhu, . Mahābāhu, Peetha and Mahāpeetha.
