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it by petals of flowers She then danced on the heap without scattering the seeds or hurting her feet by the needle Exceedingly pleased by this performance, her lorer promised her any reward which she would ask and he could give Kosa, however, replied, that skill was nothing sa rery tronderful, since it depended merely on practice But the deed of Sthūlabhadra, she asserted, tras of a different kind, for le had, of his own will, subdued his passion and not yielded to the greatest temptations The charioteer, learning who Sthūlabhadra tas, desired to serve him and, being further instructed by Kosā, adopter the Jaina farth Koså herself became a nun About this time a famine of twelre years set in (170-193)
In Canaka, a village of the Golla district, lived the Brāhman Canın, a devout Jama, Those fife was Capestari Their son, who got the name Canakya, had all his teeth completel on being born The monks being informed of this marvellous circumstance, foretold that the boy would become a king But the father being rather of a religious turn of mind, desired to spare his son a lot which be considered dangerous to the well-being of the inner man Accordingly to remove the omen be broke out the boy's teeth Upon Thich the monks foretold that Canakya would gorern by proxy Cānakya, growing up and becoming learned in all sciences, married a poor Brālman girl Once the wife of Canakya went to her parents on the redding of her brother There she met her sisters ho, being married to rich men, Tere fine ladies,
1 The same circumstance is told of Richard III of England Sce Henry VI CV 652,
“Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou trast born
To signify thou camest to bite the world" See also line 74 of the same scene, and Richard III N, 49 (TAW NIY)
2 Cf the following story in the lustory of Rome, which lead to the enactment that one of the Consuls should alirass be a Plebeian M Fabius Ambustus, a Patrician, had two daughters, the elder mnrned to
Jt Serv. Sulpicius, a Patrician, the younger to C Licus, a Plebeian
| 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 |