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ACCEPTING ALMS FROM CANDANABALA ON FULFILMENT OF THE VOWS
During the twelfth year after initiation Bhagavan Mahāvīra entered the city of Kausāmbī after a long penance. He would accept alms (Bhiksa) only from the donor who fulfilled his ten untold conditions. He would accept an Udič preparation from the corner of a winnowing basket, given by a person with one leg on the threshold and the other outside, who was a princess turned into a slave, who had a shaven head and whose legs were bound by chains. She must be a chaste woman, performing the penance of Atthama (three days' fasts), and should serve him after all mendicants had left and with tears in her eyes. Five months and twenty-five days elapsed, but no donor fulfilled these conditions. Candanabala, a princess, sold as a slave, shackled and shaved by the jealous wife of a rich merchant, fulfilled all the conditions except weeping. Bhagavan Mahāvīra turned his face away at the last moment without accepting her humble alms. This made Candanabālā weep and the last condition being realized. Bhagavan Mahavira accepted the alms.
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