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night-the first night of meeting of Jambū Kumāra with his wives-in which Jambū Kumāra was instructing his newlymarried wives in religious subjects on the seventh storey of the building.
Prabhaya went to the place and on seeing Jambū Kumāra busily engaged in conversation with his wives, lulled Jambû Kumār's eight wives to sleep by means of his Avasvāpini Vidyā and tried to take away valuable ornainents and costly garments from their bodies
Jambu Kumāra instantly fixed Prabhava and his comdrades to their respective places by means of rafiqat faran Stambhini Vidya, the art of making living beings and other objects immovable, so they were unable to take away their highlydesired booty.
Prabhava then told Jambu Kumāra “O Jambū! You teach me your Stambhini Vidyā. I will show you my Tālodghātini Vidyā and Avasvāpini Vidyā
Jambu Kumāra replied, “What is the use of these Vidyās (arts) to me? I am going to instruct iny cight Wives during the night, and renouncing all my wealth, I am going to tåke maat atat Bhāgavatı Diksã in the morning
Prabhava was greatly astonished on hearing these words and he said “Why do you abandon these various pleasures of the world, and take Diksā ? Jambu Kumāra, thereupo), explained to him the transitoriness of the pleasures of this world, and Prabhava, having heard the stories and the entire line of discussion of Jambū Kumāra with his wives, made up nis mind to renounce the world in the morning.
Prabhava, then, went to Ganadhara Mahārāja Sudharmā Swāmi and took Diksā in the morning along with Jainbū Kumīra and his eight newly-married wives, Jambū Kumāra's parents and parents-in-law, and his own five hundred comrades.
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