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the same elephant (3) You break your well-known Agnibhiru choriot, and with the broken wood-pieces of the chariot, let a blazing funeral pile be prepared and (4) Let all of us four enter the burning funeral pile. Being unable to fulfil the conditions of Abhaya Kumara's proposal, King Canda Pradyota, at last redeemed his promises by consenting to set free
Abhaya
Kumara.
Abhaya Kumāra was thus set free. But while going away to his native place. Abhaya Kumārā told Caṇḍa Pradyota :-'You have treacherously brought me here secretly but I will publicly carry you away in broad day-light, through your market-places. from amongst large multitudes of your citizens.
After coming to Rajagriha Nagara Abhaya Kumara allowed some time to pass away without doing anything to Canda Pratyota, He, then, thought of teaching him a lesson. Abhaya Kumāra now, put on the apparel of a merchant and he took two very handsome, young, charming daughters of a prostitute of his town, with him and went to Ujjaini Nagari. He hired a large commodious house on the main public road of Ujjaini and lived there, with the two charming girls.
One day when King Canda Pradyota was passing by that road, he clearly saw the two charming girls who were gracefully watching the passing of the king along with his retinue. Directly on seeing the girls, King Canda Pradyata became greatly enamoured of them. He sent a clever procuress to them. Her offers were contemptuously rejected and she was angrily turned out. The duti (procuress) came to them again. They turned her back a second time but with a little milder tone The procuress, went to them a third time earnestly imploring them with despair, to accept her offer. But both the girls told her :--We are under a careful protection of our virtuous brother, and therefore, we are so insultingly rejecting your offer. On the seventh day from to-day, he
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| SR No. | 008003 |
| Book Title | Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 2 Vibhag 2 |
| 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 |