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Vada ] Nihnayavāda
: 161: D. C. Outside the city of Antarað jikā there was a temple known as Bhūtagriha. There lived a preceptor named Sri Gupta. Sri Gupta had a pupil named Rohagupta, who stayed in some other village from where he usually came to pay his homage to the preceptor every now and then.
Once upon a time when Rohagupta was coming to the city of Antaranjikā in order to pay his usual homage to the preceptor, he saw a parivrājaka (a wandering ascetic) with an iron belt tied around his belly, and with a branch of the Jamba tree in his hand signifying thereby that his stomach was filled to the brim with knowledge, and that there was no body in the whole of Jambad| vīpa who could defeat him. This mendicant was known as Potta
sala in the city as his stomach was tide with an iron-belt. This Pottaśāla wandered throughout the city announcing his challenge with the beating of drum that ”All my opponents have failed. There is no body who can return my challenge. On hearing this, Rohagupta took up the challenge even without consulting his preceptor. When he narrated the whole incident to his preceptor afterwards, the preceptor said, “You have incurred a risk by doing so." For, though defeated, Pottaśāla will harass you with various magical spells. 157 (2452)
Because, विच्छू य सप्पे मूसग मिगी वराही य काग पोयाई। एयाहिं विजाहिं सो य परिवायगो कुसलो ॥१५८॥२४५३॥ 158. Viccha ya sappe mosaga migi varāhi ya kāga poyai i
Eyāhim vijjāhim so ya parivāyago kusalo. (2453) [वृश्चिकी सी मूषकी मृगी वराही काकी पोताकी। एताभिर्विद्याभिः स च परिव्राजकः कुशलः ॥१५८॥२४५३॥ 158. Vriściki sarpi mūşakī mrigi varāhi kāki potāki |
Etābhirvidyābhiḥ sa ca parivrăjakaḥ kuśalah. (2453) ]
Trans. 158. That parivrājaka (mendicant) has achieved the magical spell of scorpion, serpent, mouse, deer, boar, crow and parrot. 2453.
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