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Prompted by an urgent desire arising from his inclination of taking the vows of Á Parivrājaka pendicant consecutively during some of his preceding lives, he went to the Triclaudi ascetic and bowing down respectfully before his feet, he requested him for a preaching op religion,
Thinking him to be a fit person, the Tridandi ascetic explained him the principles of his cult, and then said :
O excellent man! You are a lucky man. You should not remain in this Samāra in the manner I lived a rniserable life and became a victim of worldly desires.
Thāvara asked :-O Lord I How were you miserable before and how were you harassed by worldly desires ? I am anxious to know it. Please, therefore, narrate your account.
The Tridandi ascetic said “O excellent man! Listen!
Having thoroughly attained puberty, perfectly full of the relish of sexual desires, fearful on account of marine fishes in the shape of ignorance, coupled with surf waves in the form of pleasures of the senses, pervading with the charm of the tide of shamelessness, unsurmountable on account of the whirlwind of bad disposition, full of the mud of wicked sentiments, inherent with an innumerable group of crafty crooked ideas, combined with the dreadful maring of arrogance, and with the flame of the fire of FT Manmatha, the God of Love and tender with the dense cover of vice; and leaving off disrespectfully my home and my kinsmen like a hermit, and becoming devoutly attacheri to coquettish young handsome females with eyes resembling an expanded blue-lotus, elegant with exalted breasts fit for great enjoyments, with charming forearms resernbling surging waves, walking like royal swans with their lotus-like feet, making soft note, and handsome like small garden ponds, I spent much time in enjoying amorous sports with a dancing-girl namerl HİTĒT Anangasènā
Deeply involved in filial love towards her, I used up the
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| SR No. | 008001 |
| Book Title | Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker |
| Publisher | Parimal Publication |
| Publication Year | 1989 |
| Total Pages | 650 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion |
| File Size | 15 MB |