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
· [6. BEAVA.
went to the park where Dhana was standing in deep meditation. A car loaden with wood was just paseing that place when its axle broke; the driver left the car there and went home with ithe draught-oxen. Dhanasri was, with a servant girl, in the temple of Caņdikā; in the middle of night she left the temple. Taking the wood from the car and piling it up round the saint, she set it on fire. Dhana perished in the flames, pero sovering to the last in pious reflections. He ascended to the heaven Sukrakalpa. 293, 16.
The servant girl had seen her mistress leaving the temple and had afterwards remarked the light of the fire. These occurrences had roused her suspicion. 294, 11. When the driver came in the morning to fetch his car, he saw the remnants of the burnt ascetic and gave notice of the crime to the king, who commissioned a policeman to find out the murderer. As nobody had, during the night, been near that place but Dhanasri and her maid, the policeman examined the latter who told him what she knew about the matter. Dhanasrt was arrested and brought before the king for trial, during which she remained silent throughout. But the king wrote to her father in Subarman and learnt from him how she had disgraced her family. He banished her from his country. · Dhanasri now wandered about and was stung by a snake. 298, 15. She died and descended to the hell Vālukaprabhā.
FIFTH ,BHAVA..
(Jaya and Vijaya) Sūratojas was" king of Kākandi. His wife Lilāvati once saw in a dream the moon entering her, belly; it was then that the soul of Dhana was incorporated in her womb. In due time she gave birth to å boy who was named Prince Jaya. He received the visual education of princes, and was of a religious turn of mind. 300, 16. Once he met in the park the monk Sanatkymára and inquired of him why he had renounced the world. The monk then narrated his life. 302, 2.
1 Jayakumars; the Kumara' is dropped when he becomes a monk,