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datta kept the prostitute Kubéra-séna, as his wife. By her, he had a male child.
In course of time Kubára-dattă acquired faria Avadhi Jñāna,-Visual Knowledge,-and on seeing this detestable connection, went to Mathura, with the permission of her Guruni,-Chief Nun,-for the purpose of instructing them.
Kubéra-dattā, lived there in an Upāśraya near the house of Kubéra-séna. With the idea of instructing her mother Kubéra-sénā, and her brother Kubér-datta, the Sadhvi Kubéra-dattā went to the house of Kubera-sénā, and commenced rocking up and down the cradle in which the child was sleeping, saying. "O son of Kubéra-datta, sleep. O brother of Kubéra-datta sleep etc. On hearing such contradictory words of the Sadhvi, Kubéra-datta asked her "Why do you talk thus ? Sadhvi Kubéra-datta, then, showed him the ring with the name inscribed on it, and said, "This prostitute Kubéra-sénā is our mother, I am your sister, etc." In this way, she narrated the eighteen kinds of relations existing between Kubera séna and the child.
Kubéra-datta was greatly ashamed to hear it and he began censuring his own self for his improper conduct. He then gave away all his property in charity, and took wafa Bhagavati Dikṣā,-Initiation into the Order of Monks-instituted by the Tirthankaras. Having practised severe austerities, Kubéra-datta went to heaven at the end of his life.
Kubéra-séna, too, condemning her bad conduct, left off her profession of prostitution, became a fat Śrāvikā,-a woman sincerely following the tenets of the Tirthankaras-and having rigidly observed the duties of a true Jain, she went to heaven."
On hearing the above narration of the story, Prabhava said, "O Jambu Kumāra! You are son-less. How will you have a prosperous future in your next life? Because,
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