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VIVAGASUYA
and oppressed people under his charge in various ways, by heavy taxation, threats of setting their houses on fire, robbing their houses etc. Once he suffered from all the sixteen kinds of diseases, and called in doctors for treatment. The doctors treated him with all kinds of medicines, but to no purpose. He suffered long from his miseries, died, and was born in hell. In the subsequent life he was born as the son of Miyadevi, and for his wicked deeds of the past life, became deformed, deaf and dumb, almost like a ball of flesh (§ 20-24).
Indrabhuti then asked his Master about the future transmigration of the soul of Miyaputta. He would be born, the Master said, as a lion, then a reptile, then a bird and so on through various species of lower animals and plants, then a bull and finally a merchant's son. There he would learn the Jain ethics, take up the vows, become a monk, and after death a god in the first heaven. In his next life he would be born in a rich family in the Mahavideha country where he would become a monk and attain liberation (§ 31).
2. There lived in Vaṇiyagāma a merchant Vijayamitta and his wife Subhadda. Many of her children were still-born. So, once, when a son was born to her, she left the child on the dunghill for some time and brought it back later, probably on account of some superstition of the age that the child thrown on the dunghill and brought back had a longer lease of life. The boy was named Ujjhiy aa (Sk., Ujjhitaka, a bandoned) because he was left on a dunghill. Now Vijayamitta, his father, went on a voyage in his ship with merchandise, but lost his life in shipwreck. His
| SR No. | 022613 |
| Book Title | Vivag Suyam |
| 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 |