Sramana 2015 04

SR No.: 525092
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sundarshanlal Jain, Ashokkumar Singh
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
Publication Year: 2015
Total Pages: 210
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Sramana, & India
File Size: 15 MB

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gives that to queen. After some time the queen got pregnant. In seventh month, she felt the craving of pregnancy (dohada) that she should give donations to poor and visit the city with all her public of the kingdom sitting on an elephant. The king gets that craving realized and does all that accordingly. (1-106) All of sudden the elephant gets mad and starts running uncontrolled in the direction of north-east. The queen who was sitting on the elephant becomes frightened. In order to get rid from the elephant, the king suggests Kamalāvatī to catch the branch of the banyan tree coming in the way. But she fails do that and the elephant flyes in the air rapidly along with her. The king sends his soldiers headed by Samarapriya in search of the queen and returns to home. After sometime, Samarapriya informs the king that though siill they have not been able to locate queen but they have got a clue. A passenger told Samarapriya that he had witnessed a lady and an elephant falling in the Padmodara pond. Now the king becomes worried and calls Sumati, the astrologer to know about the queen. Sumciti assures the king that she is alive. He tells to king that when you will get a stained string of flower beads (garland) laying in any odd place, exactly one month after that day you will meet the queen. Sumati proclaims that the queen will gave birth to a son but she will be separated with her son just after the birth. Days elapsed but there is no information about the queen. One day when king Amaraketu was in deep sleep, he saw a dream. He saw that a stained string of flower beads was coming towards him from north direction and when he caught that string that became fragrant. He proceeds in the same direction. In the way he looses his fly-whisk into a well covered by grass. When the soldiers went down in the well in search of the flywhisk, there they get Kamalāvati standing in the well. She was brought out of the well. She tells the complete story as to how she was kidnapped by the elephant, how she fell down in the pond, how she met with a group of travelers (sārtha), how she met with Śrīdatta, and how on the invitation of Śrīdatta she reached Kuśāgra Nagar. (107-207).