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getting a son like him (tumhahi samāna suta). Accordingly Prabhu granted the boon. Manu ascended to the capital of Indra and from there he was reborn as Dasaratha and Prabhu himself as his son Rāma (Balakāṇḍa, 142-152). Manu's wife Śatarupā was incarnated as Kausalya. At another place (1.186) Kasyapa and Aditi are mentioned to have been reborn as Dasaratha and Kausalya.
38. The previous births of Muni Deśabhuṣaṇa and Kulabhuṣaṇa or the story of Udita, Mudita and Vasubhūti:
Following the eradication of the calamity caused to the monks, Kulabhuṣaṇa and Deśabhuṣana on the Vamśagiri hill by a celestial being named Analaprabha, Rama enquired about the cause of the calamity. Then the elder monk Deśabhuṣaṇa narrated the story (39.36-126) illustrating the consequences of committing murder or adultery and causing betrayal of faith.
King Vijayaparvata of Padmininagari once sent his envoy Amṛtasara to another country. Amṛtasara went there along with his Brahmin friend Vasubhuti. The latter had illegitimate connection with Upayoga, the wife of the envoy. He killed Amṛtasara and returned to Upayoga who advised him to kill her sons, Udita and Mudita also. Vasubhuti's wife broke the news of the intrigue. Udita assassinated Vasubhuti. The latter was reborn as a Mleccha. Udita and Mudita renounced the world and while proceeding to the Sammeta hill lost their way in the forest. That Mleccha began to beat them, but the Senapati (i. e. the chief of the Mlecchas) rescued them. Those monks were reborn as devas and that Mleccha passing through subhuman existences and the life of a Tapasa became a Jyotiskadeva. Udita and Mudita descended from the heaven and were reborn as Ratnaratha and Citraratha respectively, being the sons of king Priyavrata of Ariṣṭapura and his first queen Padmābhā. The Jyotiskadeva was born of his second queen, Kanakābhā as Anuddhara. Ratnaratha married a princess, Śrīprabha. Disgruntled Anuddhara could not tolerate it. He caused upheaval in the territory of Ratnaratha. Then the latter banished Anuddhara. The latter became a Tāpasa. Ratnaratha and Citraratha renounced the world, attained heaven and were reborn as Deśabhusana and Kulabhuṣaṇa, the sons of king Kṣemankara of Siddharthanagara and queen Vimala. Once, on account of developing love unknowingly for their own sister, they became disgusted with the wordly life and renounced the world. Their father also became a monk and got reborn as Garudadhipati. That Tapasa