Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1

SR No.: 008001
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

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desire for confluence of good persons, because their is no remedy for the mind severed by the sword of their separation. Therefore, give me your consent to depart from here
With tears in his eyes caused by the grief of unbearable separation, Purusasimha accompanied the Prince with a retinue of elephants, horses, and chariots,, for a long distance, and then returned home.
The Prince, by uninterrupted journeying, commenced to return to Rājagriha Nagara.
Here, King Visvanandi toid Vişākhanandi Kumāra- “O child! Enjoy the pleasures of the splendour of the forest in company with gazelle-eyed young females, without fear even from Indra himself, in this pleasure-garden."
Leaving aside all his other engagements, Višākhanandt Kumāra lived in the Puspakarandaka pleasure-garden with increasing delight in company with handsome young females, and began to amuse himself with various sports there.
33. After uninterrupted journeying, Visvabhūti Kumāra arrived at Rājagriha Nagara, Me sent away the feudatory princes, the generals of the army, and other persons to their respective places, and on account of his long-timed eagerness of visiting the pleasure-garden owing to his intense fondness for it, Prince Visvabhūti tried to enter the Puspakarandaka pleasure-garden. The gate-keeper at the door said, "O prince! it is not advisable to enter the garden now, Prince Višākhanadi is amusing himself here with the females of his harem. Visvabbūti Kumāra inquired, “When did he come here"? The gate-keeper replied;"Immediately after you left the place.”
Then with his eyes red-shot with violent anger, with bis eye-brows raised high on the fore-head, with his face bewildered and terrifying, and with drops of copious prespiration flowing instantly, the Prince began to tbink thus-“ Under the pretence of an insolent behaviour of a neighbouring feudatory chief, the
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