Vivag Suyam

SR No.: 022613
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P L Vaidya
Publisher: P L Vaidya
Publication Year: 1935
Total Pages: 198
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Book_English, & agam_vipakshrut
File Size: 12 MB

Page 12

INTRODUCTION
vii
to hold out against robbers, returned to the capital and reported that Abhaggasena could not be captured in war, but may be by peaceful negotiations, tributes or treachery. The king then built a huge building,arranged for a ten-day's fair in the capital with unrestricted and free admission to places of amusemente. The report about the festival reached Abhaggasena who agreed to visit Purimatāla and be the guest of the king. The king received him cordially, gave him several presents and placed the newly built palace at his disposal. The king then asked his men to close the city gates caught Abhaggasena and ordered his execution. Indrabhūti saw him on his way to the place of execution, and asked his Master who he was and what he did in his previous birth to deserve such punishment. Malāvira then said ( $ 72–85):
There lived in the city of Purimatāla, Ninnaa, Sk. Nirnaya, lawless, a dealer in eggs of bir is. He engaged several men to collect eggs and to sell to the public several dishes of eggs, and himself enjoyed them. As a result of this wicked act he was born, in the next birth, in the third hell, and after that as Abhaggasena the chief. ( $ 65-67). Mahāvira continued further that after having met his death from the hands of royal officers, Abhaggasena's soul was destined to be born in several species of lower animals and creatures of hell, and after a very long period, as & human being, a monk, and be finally liberated (8 86).
4. There lived in the city of Sāhañjani a merchant named Subhadda and his wife Bhaddā who lost several of her children in their early childhood. When once a son was born to her, she kept the