Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 2 Vibhag 2

SR No.: 008003
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 802
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 20 MB

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continued for several days. Their intimacy increased and the candal's wife came to the merchant's house with her whole family and lived there. Candal's wife was pregnant. When she was nearing her time of delivery the merchant's wife made a bargain She proposed: good woman! You usually give birth to boys. So, you give me your boy of this delivery and you accept a dead boy or a girl that I may give birth to. The Candals wife agreed with the proposal on account of her great intimacy towards her. The merchant's wife gave birth to a dead girl. The Candals wife gave birth to a very handsome charming boy. The merchant's wife took the boy from the Candal's wife, and gave her own dead daughter to her Then making the boy bow down at the feet of her companion-Méti (the Candal's wife)-the delighted merchant's wife said -O- Jiviteśvari (O Goddess of Life ), Bestow long life to this boy' At the time of the boy's Nama Sthāpanā (fixing of personal name ), the boy was named Métarya by the merchant's wife with great pomp With growing age, Métārya Kumāra easily learned all the arts and sciences in a short time on account of his excellent mass of meritorious deeds of previous lives. At this time, his god-friend of previous life-the king's son-came to him from his celestial abode in déva loka as mutually settled when they were companions in the déva-loka, and instructed him to renounce the world Métarya Kumāra did not give him any attention Then, his father contracted Métarya's marriage with eight girls of wealthy parents with great festivi tres. When Métarya Kumâra decorated like Jayanta (a son of Indra) and riding an excellent palanquin was passing in his marriage-procession through the main street of the town, his friendgod-the king's son-entered the Canḍāls body. The man began to weep loudly and said -If my daughter were alive, I would have celebrated my daughter's marriage-ceremony with great pomp and I would have given dinners to my caste-fellows On hearing these words, the Candal's wife gave the true husband. The enraged Candala, through the prowess of the god, not only threw down Métarya Kumāra on the ground from his palanquin, but he told him :-O Wicked Man! Why do you
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