Karkanda Chariu

SR No.: 034918
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kankamar Muni
Publisher: Karanja Jain Publication
Publication Year: 1934
Total Pages: 364
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 33 MB

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brought her home. Having secured the cloth from her, he presented it instantly to the king. Seeing that, the king was pleased with him and bestowed a great favour upon him. Observing that, the minister- Brahmana thought of destroying his life. The minister went to the dear wife of the king and told her " Ask for tiger-milk." Then she instantly took her bed.
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21. Hearing about the condition of the queen, the king immediately went to her. She told that to the king who commissioned the good Brahmana for it. The Brahmana went home and instantly turned the Rakshasu woman into a tigress with a rope fastened to her neck. He brought her to the palace and presented her to the king instantly. At her sight, all people fled away. (The Brahmana said) "Your minister shall milk her well." The minister, being terrified, told the king " There is no purpose of the milk; let it go away." Then the minister, in secret consultation, told the queen soon again, "You ask for speaking water to be brought. Do it so, that, being gone, he may never return." Then she said "Listen, oh king; get soon speaking water. "Hearing that, the king told the Brahmana It is for you to devise means for the accomplishment of this mission. "
22. He brought the Rakshasa woman turning her into water and made it to speak in front of the king. It said "I would eat away both persons, the minister and the queen, oh king!" Hearing this, the king felt wonder-struck and asked the Brahmana about it all. He told the doings of the minister, and the king turned out the wicked one. The king then made the Brahmana his minister and the people of the town were satisfied with it. On a subsequent day, the good Brahmana retired for austerities and entered the portals of heaven. He was reborn as Arjuna. This is the fruit of the ceremonial, oh daughter!" She then accepted it immediately and observed it with devotion to lord Jina. As an inviolable fruit of the vow, the lovely lady set aside her female sex, and then renouncing the world, died and soon entered heaven.
23. In the meanwhile, Karakanda, when he heard of this, felt highly grieved. He clung to the feet of the Jina, became afraid of the afflic
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