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Conversion of Vajranābha and Kubera 103 Prince Vajranābha, in the company of Kubera, returned to the city. His father, King Vajravīrya, made over to him his kingdom, and took the vow. Vajranābha, while ruling piously and righteously, was taken, in his turn, with misgivings as to the stability of the world and its allurements. He also decided to seek salvation. Notwithstanding the protest of his son Cakrāyudha, he appointed him his successor, and turned mendicant. He wandered to Sukacchavijaya. There the soul of the serpent (2.1048) had been reborn as a wild Bhilla 46 by name of Kurañgaka, who infested the mountain of Jvalana. Vajranābha went there and placed himself in kāyotsarga posture, fearless in the midst of the howls of elefants, jackals, Rākşasas, and so on (100). Kurangaka, out of prenatal hatred, hit Vajranābha with an arrow. Vajranābha, tho struck fatally, remained free from evil thought, remarking that he had been killed by the soul of the Bhilla in a former birth. He was reborn as the god Lalitāñga.47 Kurangaka, when he died, went to the Saptamāvani hell 48 (1034-1108).
* Sixth pre-birth of the future Meghamålin.--Bhilla is the designation of wild forest dwellers. "Seventh pre-birth of the future Pårçva.
Seventh pre-birth of the future Meghamalin.
