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direction, gave up the body of Ajjunaya, the garland-maker, and having taken the iron mace of the weight of thousand palas, went back in the direction from which he had appeared. Then that garland-maker Ajjunaya, abandoned by Jakkha Moggarapani fell on the ground with a thud with all his limbs.
Then Sudamsana, the worshipper of the Ascetic, seeing that he was free from the calamity, observed the standard.
Then that Ajjunaya, the garland-maker, on coming back to senses after a while, got up, and said thus to Sudamsana, the worshipper of the Ascetic;
“Who are you, Beloved of Gods and whitherward are you bound ?”
Then that worshipper of the Ascetic, Sudamsana said thus to the garland-maker Ajjunaya.
“I am, in sooth, Beloved of Gods, the worshipper of the Ascetic, Sudamsaņa, who comprehend the living and the lifeless; and I am bound to the sanctuary Gunasıla-a to offer respects to the Ascetic lord Mahāvīra. "
