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pressure from a blind person, an infant, a female, or from a fool, is irresistible. On the next day, Sakaḍāla praised the composition of Vararuci, and the king becoming pleased, gave him 108 dinārs. Hence-forward, this went on happening daily. Šakaḍāla, one day, asked the king:-"O king! Why do you give away so much every day? The king replied :-I give him because you praise his composition. Sakaḍāla, then, said:'I am not praising Vararuci. I am only praising the original author of the excellent composition. All these verses are not Vararuci's own composition. They are composed by some other learned men. Even my own daughters know these verses. I will bring them before you to-morrow morning.'
The next morning Śakaḍāla had all his daughters seated behind a curtain, in the king's palace. His daughters had such wonderful memory that the first named Yakṣā remembered whatever she heard only once, the second Yakṣa-dattā remembered whatever was repeated twice; in this way, all his daughters used to remember things. As soon as Vararuci uttered the verses, all the daughters of Sakaḍāla repeated them one by one. The king did not give Vararuci any money. Vararuci was greatly ashamed. He made up his mind to take revenge on Śakaḍāla
Vararuci now made another attempt for popularity. He fixed an apparatus in the waters of the Ganges and it was so arranged that on pressing it by his foot, a bag full of gold mohurs, would jump out and fall into his hands. He circulated a piece of information among the public, that "the deity Gangā Mātā becoming pleased by my eulogy daily gives me this bag of gold mohurs". Sakaḍāla had a scent of fraud in this. He made all inquires about this fraud, and informed the king accordingly. The king intended to make careful inquiries in the matter.
Vararuci fraudulently contrived to conceal the bag of gold mohurs daily in the yantra (apparatus) at night when the place was deserted by all human beings. Šakaḍāla informed a secret
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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 |