________________ : Translation me at once what kind of husband should be given to you ? " (88) But she, who had acquired pure discrimi nation by (her study of ) the essence of the thoughts and the words of the Jina, and whu was fully equipped with the virtue of modesty, and who had her face bent downwards, did not speak, and, therefyre, being asked again by the king, she, having smiled a little, said: "Oh, father! is it proper that you, who are ei.dowed with discrimination ask me this question ? ( It is not proper, ) because noble - born girls do not say (such things as ) let this be my husband.' (But to them ) he, who is given to them by their parents, is indead ! welcome. (89-91) 1. "( Still, however, ) here in the question of giving a husband (or wife ), even pirents are merely an instrumental or apparent cause (and not an efficient one ); but generally the union between souls ( as husband and wife ) is already decided by our actions of previous births. (92) ~ Whatever karma, good or bad, is accumulated by a 'java' at a particular time, that karma of his comes into effect at another parti. cular time as if tied down with a string. (93). "That daughter ( lit. girl) who is possessed
