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out for her husbant and the policemen believing her, and naturally mistaking the elephant's driver for the robber they sought seized and impaled him on the spot The tortured man greatly suffered from intense thirst but nobody dared to bring hun vater At last a compassionate Jaina, called Jinadāsa, promised to fetch hum water if he would mean hile invocate the Arliats This the poor man did, but before Jinadāsa returned he died still urocating the Arhats He was reborn as a Trantaia god (593-618)
The queen and her neu lorer had set out on their journey and reached a swollen river The robber proposed to bring orer first the queen s clothes and jewels and then herself. But when he had crossed the river with ererything the queen had had on her bods he thought it safer to part company with so dangerous a woman and left her naked like a newborn haby on the opposite bank1 In this plight she was discovered br the Vrantara god the late elephant's driver, Tho had resolred upon saring her soul He therefore took the form of jackal who had a piece of flesh in bus mouth But seeing a fish who had jumped out of the rater and tumbled on the dry ground he let go the flesh and rushed on the fish - the fish, lowerer, jerked bumself again into the water, while a bird commg suddenly down seized the piece of flesh The queen seeing this laughed at the jackal who had lost his flesh and missed the fish thereupon the transformed god rejoined that she too had lost her first and her second lover
11 similar story is told of Dharana and Laksmi, and the latter's elopement rith a robber in Harbhadra s Samarāicca Kahā, 6th bhava, p 426-433 of mr edition of that text in the Bibliotheca Indica
? This incident is found in the Chulladhanuggahajataka, on page 222 of the 3rd Tol of Fausbolls eruation of the JĀtakas The Chulladhanuggaha, after kallıng with arrows an elephant and 49 robbers 18, owing to his wifes treachers, balled by the chief of the robbers The chief of the robbers deserts her, as in the text Then Sakka assumes the form of a jackal with a piece of flesh and Vātal br his orders assumes the form of a fish and Panchasıkha of a hawk Precisel the same drama is
| SR No. | 010713 |
| Book Title | Sthaviravali Charitra or Parisista Parva |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Jacobi |
| Publisher | Asiatic Society |
| Publication Year | 1932 |
| Total Pages | 467 |
| Language | Sanskrit, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 12 MB |