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THE STORY OF THF PREVIOUS
BIRTH
After the religious instructions of muni Chandrayash were complete, king Surpal asked the muni
"Prabhu ! The lives of my son Mahabal and my daughter-in-law Malaya are full of strange events. Frequent separations and re-unions after struggles have remained the order of their lives.
Strange things have also happened in this process of separation and re-union. Far instance, on seeing a man a crocodile at once swallows it. But one crocodile had taken up Malaya from the sea and carried her safely to the seashore. Kindly explain to us the secrets underlying such events and thereby remove our darkness in the form of false allurement towards, and attachment to, worldly objects."
The muni, the knower of the Supreme
