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person saw this scene. He mocked, “Oh! Where is your power of destroying Kothā tree?”
Muni forgot that he is saint and became furious. He lifted cow by its hat horns and threw it in the sky. Vishākhānandi saw violent Muni and ran away from there. Muni determined to become more powerful in future, with the help of his penance and reclusion.
After completing life of one crore years he became deity at Mahāshukra heaven in the seventeenth birth. In the eighteenth birth he came to the womb of queen Mrugāvati. She was the wife of King Ripupratishatru (Prajāpati) ruling over Pottanpur city of this Bharatkshetra. The queen dreamed seven great dreams indicating that fetus will become Vāsudev. He was baptized as Triprushtha.
The matured Triprushtha killed death defying lion at Tung Mountain without any weapon. That lion was the soul of Vishākhānandi. Triprushtha's power became world famous. He scuffled with Prativāsudev Ashwagriv and conquered lordship of three continents. Proud Vāsudev Triprushtha poured boiling lead into the ears of servant. He constituted ruthless and brutal dense Karma. He did many sinful deeds and after completing life of eighty four lacs years, in nineteenth birth he became hellish in the seventh hell.
After completing life of thirty three sāgaropam and after tolerating acute pain he became lion in twentieth birth.
In the twenty first birth he again got birth in the fourth hell. The soul of tirthankar has to ramble so much and that to where, just
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