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decision. She took a needle, dipped it into soot and added a dot over the letter 'a' in the note. This turned adhiyatam into andhiyatam (make the prince blind). Adding of just one syllable had completely changed the meaning. She replaced the note from where she had lifted it. On returning, the king sealed the note without reading it again and sent it with the messenger. When the attendant of the prince read the note he was dumbfounded. He did not read aloud the unpleasant message. When the prince ordered him to read he did so reluctantly. The prince understood the conspiracy but he thought-No one in this Maurya clan had disobeyed an order from the king, how can I disobey this order from my father, the king. This is impossible.' With these thoughts Kunal took a heated needle and pierced both his eyes in spite of opposition from grief-stricken family members. Kunal became blind. (Haribhadriya Vritti of Visheshavashyak Bhashya, verse 861, p. 41, Ed. Muni Jambu Vijaya)
(3) There was a large pond in a jungle. It was popularly called Kamik-tirth. On the edge of the pond there was a banjul tree. It was a miraculous place because if some animal climbed the banjul tree and from there jumped into the pond it turned into a human being. If a human being did the same he or she turned into a god or goddess. However, if out of greed someone repeated the act, he would regain the original form. One day in presence of a monkey-couple a human-couple fell from a branch of the banjul tree into the pond and at once turned into a divine-couple. Seeing this the monkey-couple also imitated the act and at once turned into a human-couple. The man turned monkey said to his woman turned mate“Come darling ! Let's do it again so that we become gods.” The woman refused, saying—“We don't know what will happen if we fall into the water once again ? I am satisfied with this human form. Excessive greed is harmful and it is censured in the scriptures.” But driven by excessive greed the man turned monkey jumped into the pond once again and to his bad luck, he regained his original form, a monkey. Sometime अनुयोगद्वार सूत्र
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