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

Page 54

avfi
CONTINTS.
18. BRATA. Vijayasimha's story. 188, 8–168, 18. -
I am, the saint related, the son of the merohant Sagara datte in Lakşminilaya and of his wife Srimati. Once I went to Lakşmiparvata near our town. There I saw & 0000-nut tree with an enormous root, and I wondered why the root had grown to such an extraordinary length. 138, 13. Meanwhile the dharmacakra of Ajitadova' appeared ; then came the Tirthakara himself, surrounded by pany monks. Gods prepared the samaumgaraņa, which was entered by the Tirthakara. When he had ceased preaching, I asked him about that coco-nut tree and its long root. The Lord related that at that place I and he who now was that tree, had, in a former birth, hidden a treasure of seven lakhs of dināras in the ground; and he then narrated our history in detail.
Ajit a’s t ale. 140, 12–153, 18. We had been born, he said, in Amarapura as Guņacandra and Balaoandra. We had amassed enormous riches by trade and were living in Lakşminilaya, Once the town was attacked by an enemy. We fled to Lakşmiparvata, where we buried our treasure in the ground. In order to get undivided possession of the treasure, Balacandra poisoned me; but afterwards he was 'stung by a snake and died. 141, 8. In our next human birth I became Devadatta, and the other a snake which lived near the place of the hidden treasure. When on some occasion I went there, the snake stung me lest I should get the treasure, but my people killed the snake. We were then reborn, I as Indradeva, and the other as a hon. When I came to the same spot, the lion, for the same reason as before, attacked me, and we killed each other. In our next existence we were Kalasena and Capdasena, Cāņdala twins. "Once when hunting on Lakşmiparvata, we encamped on the spot where the treasure was hidden. By chance Caņdašena discovered it, and desiring to have
The second Tirthakars. : Hore and in the sequel mur text noticed the intermediate births a ma animal, god, or denison of hell, as the case may be. I onit thone. details