Nayadhamma Kahao

SR No.: 034981
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N V Vaidya
Publisher: N V Vaidya
Total Pages: 174
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 15 MB

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tion, and you always go on washing your hands etc. ... Do. you, therefore, O B., make a confession for this violation ...upto.... undertake (some expiatory rites). But the nun Sukumārikā paid no heed or attention to these words of the Gopālikā nuns, and went on (as before) paying no heed or attention to them. Then those nuns kept on constantly ridiculing her ...upto... insulting her for the same, and tried to ward her off from it. Thereupon that Sukumārikā, being scorned ...upto... warded off by those Nirgrantha nuns, en tertained the following thoughts :-"I was mistress of myself as long as I lived in the house. But since the time I became a shaven nun, I am no longer a mistress of myself. Formerly these nuns used to respect me, but now they do not. So it is better for me to go away from these Gopālikā nuns tomorrow early in the morning, and stay in a solitary (or independent) monastery; with this thought she left the Gopālikā nuns the next day and went and stayed in a sepa. rate monastery. Then the nun Sukumārikā, with nobody to curb her wanton actions, unrestrained, and wayward, washed frequently her hands etc.,...and led there the life of a nun for many years, undisciplined and leading a bad life, and being attached and devoted (in mind) to 'sexual pleasures. Then after a fast of a fortnight, without confessing that sin and without undergoing any expiation for it, she died and was born as a celestial courtesan in one of the Vimānas of the Is'āna Kalpa. There some of the goddesses have nine Palyopamas as the duration of life. There the Goddess Sukumā. rikā also had nine Palyopamas as her duration of life.
[26.121] At that time, in this very Jam būdvīpa, in the Bhāratavarşa, in the country of Pancālas, there was a city named Kām pilyapura (Description). A king named Drupada ruled there (Description). His queen was Culaṇī, and the prince Dhsstadyumna was the heir-apparent. Then the goddess Sukumārikā,, baving fallen down from heaven at the end of her life, descended into the womb of the queen Chulanī of the king Drupada, in this very Jambūd vipa, in the Bharatavarşa, in the Panchāla country, in the city Kāmpilyapura. [P.27] Then the queen Chulaņī delivered a
caughter at the end of nine months. Then at the end of Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat