Ratnakarandaka Shravakachara

SR No.: 010669
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jugalkishor Mukhtar
Publisher: Manikchand Digambar Jain Granthamala Samiti
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 456
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 7 MB

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प्रथमः परिच्छेदः ।
संचित्य भार्यां गृहे धृत्वा शीघ्रमागत्य विलपंती तेन सा नीता । आकाशे गच्छता भार्यौ दृष्ट्वा भीतेन पर्णलघुविद्या: समर्प्य महाटव्यां मुक्ता । तत्र च तां रुदन्तीमालोक्य भीमनाम्ना भिल्लराजेन निजपल्लि - कायां नीत्वा प्रधानराज्ञीपदं तव ददामिमामिच्छेति भणित्वा रात्रावनिच्छतीं भोक्तुमारब्धा । व्रतमाहात्म्येन वनदेवतया तस्य ताडनाद्युपसर्गः कृतः । देवता काचिदियमिति भीतेन तेनावासितसार्थपुष्पकनाम्नः सार्थवाहस्य समर्पिता । सार्थवाहो लोभं दर्शयित्वा परिणेतुकामो न तया वाञ्छितः । तेन चानीयायोध्याया कामसेनाकुट्टिन्याः समर्पिता, कथमपि वेश्या न जाता । ततस्तया सिंहराजस्य राज्ञो दर्शिता तेन च रात्रौ हठात् सेवितुमारब्धा । नगरदेवतया तद्रतमाहात्म्येन - तस्योपसर्गः कृतः । तेन च भीतेन गृहान्निः सारिता । रुदती सखेदं सा कमलश्रीक्षांतिकया श्राविकेति मत्वाऽतिगौरवेण धृता । अथानंतमतीशोकविस्मरणार्थं प्रियदत्तश्रेष्ठी बहुसहायो वंदनाभक्तिं कुर्वन्नयोध्यायां गतो निजस्यालकाजिनदत्तश्रेष्ठिनो गृहे संध्यासमये प्रविष्टो रात्रौ पुत्रीहरणवार्ता कथितवान् । प्रभाते तस्मिन् वंदनाभक्तिं कर्तुं गते अतिगौरवितप्राघूर्ण - कनिमित्तं रसवतीं कर्तुं गृहे चतुष्कं दातुं कुशला कमलश्रीक्षांतिका श्राविका जिनदत्तभार्यया आकारिता । सा च सर्वं कृत्वा वसतिका गता । वंदनाभाक्तं कृत्वा आगतेन प्रियदत्तश्रेष्ठिना चतुष्कमालोक्यानंतमतीं स्मृत्वा गह्वरितहृदयेन गद्गदितवचनेनाश्रुपातं कुर्वता भणितं । यया गृहमंडनं कृतं तां मे दर्शयेति । ततः सा आनीता तयोश्च मेलापके जाते जिनदत्तश्रेष्ठिना च महोत्सवः कृतः । अनंतमत्या चोक्तः तात ! इदानीं मे तपो दापय दृष्टमेकस्मिन्नेव भवे संसारवैचित्र्यमिति । ततः कमलश्रीक्षांतिकापार्श्वे तपो गृहीत्वा बहुना कालेन विधिना मृत्वा तदात्मा सहस्रारकल्पे देवो जातः ॥ २ ॥

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The First Chapter.

The wife was brought back home by him, lamenting. Seeing the wife in the sky, the frightened one gave the leaf-knowledge and released her in the great forest. There, seeing her weeping, the Bhilla king named Bhima took her to his village and said, "I give you the position of the chief queen." At night, he began to eat her unwillingly. Due to the power of the vow, the forest deity caused affliction to him. Frightened, he handed her over to the caravan leader named Avāsitasārthapuṣpaka. The caravan leader, showing greed, wanted to marry her, but was not desired by her. He then handed her over to the courtesan Kāmasenakulṭinī of Ayodhyā, but she did not become a courtesan in any way. Then she was shown to the lion-king king, and at night he forcibly began to serve her. Due to the power of that vow, the city deity caused affliction to him. Frightened, he expelled her from the house. Weeping with distress, she was held in high regard by Kamalashrīkṣāntikā, the śrāvikā, thinking her to be a śrāvikā. Then, in order to forget the extreme sorrow, the chief merchant Priyadata, with many helpers, went to Ayodhyā, and in the evening, entered the house of his own maternal uncle, the chief merchant Jinadatta, and narrated the news of the abduction of the daughter at night. In the morning, when he went to perform the veneration, the skillful Kamalashrīkṣāntikā, the śrāvikā, was summoned by the wife of Jinadatta to make the four-fold offering and the auspicious mark. She did everything and went to the residence. The chief merchant Priyadata, after performing the veneration, seeing the four-fold offering, remembering Anantamatī, with a distressed heart, spoke in a choked voice and shed tears, saying, "Show me the one by whom the house was decorated." Then she was brought, and a reunion took place between the two, and the chief merchant Jinadatta celebrated a great festival. Anantamatī was told, "Father! Now give me asceticism, for I have seen the diversity of the worldly life in a single life." Then, taking asceticism by the side of Kamalashrīkṣāntikā, after a long time, she died according to the rule and her soul was born as a god in the Sāhasrāra realm.