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relatives, why do you accept the great vow of arear Dikşā Initiation into an Order of Monks? Jambū Kumāra said "Hear a story about the worthlessness of worldly pleasures from me"
The story runs as follows.
In the city of Mathurā, a prostitute named Kubéra-sénā, after an intercourse with some unknown person, gave birth to a twin, consisting of one boy and one girl. After eleven days, the procuress said, “Children cannot be nourished at our house." You therefore leave them off at some deserted place." The prostitute, thereupon, having put on a ring of gold, inscribed with the name
Kubéra-datta and sacar Kubéradattă respectively on the finger of the two children and having placed them in a wooden box, left the box swimming in the waters of river agat Yamunā, River Jamnā.
When the box came to gratire Sūryapura Nagara,-the town of Sūryapura,-two merchants of the town took it and on opening the box, one of them took the boy with him and the other took away the girl. In accordance with the inscription on the rings, the two children were named Kubéra-datta and Kubéra-dattă respectively. When both the children grew up to mature age, the merchants married tirem with each other. After marriage, when both of them happened to see each other's rings, while they were amusing themselves in their Patatial building, Kubéra-datta on reading the names on the rings, thought that the relation between both of them must be that of a brother and a sister. Kubéra-dattā also thought so. Both of them, on inquiring from their respective parents were Informed that both of them were obtained from a wooden-box rescued from the waters of the river Jamnā.
Kubéra-dattā, disgusted with the idea of having formed matrimonial relation with her own brother, renounced the world and became a e t Sadhvi, nun,
Kubér-datta taking much commodity with him, went to Mathură for the purpose of trading there. At Mathurā, Kubér20
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| SR No. | 008006 |
| Book Title | Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 5 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker |
| Publisher | Parimal Publication |
| Publication Year | 1989 |
| Total Pages | 616 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion |
| File Size | 14 MB |