Samraicca Kaha Vol 01

SR No.: 010741
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Asiatic Society
Publication Year: 1926
Total Pages: 938
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 33 MB

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CONTENTS:
[8. BHAVA.
to make use of her for the attainment of some charm. I was in utter despair at her loss; in order to console me the magician averred that the queen would suffer no harm and would return to me after six months. Still, I was desponding all that time; but before the six months were over, I experienced all of a sudden, an extreme gladness, the cause of which proved to be the arrival of the Tirthakara. The gods having prepared the samavasarana, the Lord entered it, and the different classes of deities occupied their proper places in it. I went there on a white elephant, but entered the samavasarana on foot.. Prostrating myself before the Lord, I praised him in a hymn, lowed to the monks and gods, and sat down. 647, 19. Now the Tirthakara preached the Law, explaining how it should be purified like gold by rubbing, cutting, and calcination.' 653,10. When he ceased speaking, I espied my wife among the people assembled, and I inquired of the Lord what fanlt of mine in a former birth had caused my separation from her. The following is what I learnt from him. 654, 4. In the Vindhya I had been a chief of the Sabaras, called Sikharasena ; my wife was Šrimati, who is now Candravarmā. Once we saw some monks who had lost their way, and felt compassion for them. After having fed them with fruits, etc., I put them on the right way again. They delivered us the namaskāra and taught us right conduct, espocially enjoining us, one day in every fortnight, not to commit any forbidden action, even though in danger of our lives. We carefully kept this rule. But once on a Poşadha-day we were on a peak of the Vindhya, when å fierce lion came towards us. I grasped my how and would have shot the beast, if my wife had not reminded me of our vow. We, accordingly, allowed the lion to devour us, upon which we ascended to heaven. 658, 4.
I was reborn as prince Samaramrgänka of Cakrapura in Aparavideha, and my wife as Agokadevi, a cousin of mine, whom I married ; after my father's death I ascended the throne. I was just as passionate a hunter as I had been in my last birth as a Sabara. Once I was attacked by king Sribala, to whom all
1 The first nino gåthis on p. 648 occur also in the beginning of the - Kalakdokrye-KathInaka, soe ZDMG vol. 34. p. 258 I 16--269 I 24.