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Sri Sudharmā Swāmī began to narrate - O Jambū ! At that time and at that period there was a city named Rajagṛha. In that city was Guṇasilaka garden. King Śrenêka was ruler of that city. Name of his chief queen was Celanā.
A gardener or garland maker, named Arjuna was the resident of that city. He was rich and unsurpasable. The name of his wife was Bandhumati. She was tender and much beautiful.
That Arjuna garland-maker had a big flower-garden outside the city Rajagṛha. That garden was covered by dense blue leaves. So it seemed as the dense clouds in the sky. Flowers of five colours bloomed in it. So that garden was heart-pleasing eye-capturing and worth seeing.
Near that garden was a sanctuary of deity (god) Yakṣa Mudgarapāņi. That deity had devolved upon him from a line of many ancestors of the family from father, grand father etc. Ancient, divine and true influensive, like the sanctuary of Pūrṇabhadra deity.
In that sanctuary there was an idol of deity (Yakṣa) Mudgarapāņi having held the iron mace weighing one thousand palas (according to modern weights about 57 kilogram heavy ) in his hand.
सूत्र ५ :
तणं से अज्जुण मालागारे बालप्पभिई चेव मोग्गरपाणि - जक्खस्स भत्ते या होत्था | कल्ला कल्लिं पच्छिपिडगाई गिण्हइ, गिहित्ता रायगिहाओ णयराओ पडिणिक्खमइ; पडिणिक्खमित्ता जेणेव पुप्फारामे तेणेव उवागच्छइ; उवागच्छित्ता पुप्फुच्चयं करेइ,
करित्ता; अग्गाई बराई पुष्फाई गहाय जेणेव मोग्गरपाणिस्स जक्खाययणे तेणेव उवागच्छइ, उवागच्छित्ता मोग्गरपाणिस्स जक्खस्स महरिहं
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