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salvation in due time. D 2. (688a) After having passed twentytwo sāgarovamas in the Accuya heaven, G. will be reborn as the son of king Sammui and his wife Bhaddā, at Sayaduvāra in the Punda region at the foot of the Vinjha Mountains. He will be called Mahāpauma, Devaseña and Vimalavāhaņa. He will ill-treat the Jaina monks, esp. Sumangala, the great granddisciple (pauppaya: prapautraka) of the Arhat Vimala, while he is practising asceticism in the Subhūmibhāga grove near Sayaduvāra. Sumangala, thanks to his ohi-nāna, will know that in his last existence but one (io tacce bhava-ggahane) Mahāpauma was G.; he will tell him so and warn him. At last Sumangala will incinerate him with his magic fire. Later on Sumangala will be reborn in the great abode (mahāvimāna) Savvatthasiddha and attain a blessed end. (692a) After having been born many thousands of times among the species HAM (some of these rebirths are specified) and been killed by some kind of burning, D 3 (694a) finally G. will be reborn as a brahmin's daughter at Bebhela at the foot of the Vinjha Mountains. She will live happily with her husband and become pregnant, but one day she will perish in a jungle conflagration. Then G. will alternately be reborn as a god and as a human being devoted to study and asceticism. At last he will reach Mahāvideha, become a kevalin and tell the Jaina monks the deterrent story of his former existences; ref. to Dadhapainna in Uvav. par. 102-116. After having fasted to death he will attain liberation. * *
Cf. BASHAM, O.C., pp. 142-145.-For Sammui HOERNLE has Sumai. Further details on the names are given by the same author, 0.c., p. II.-Sayaduvāra and Punda: not identified.-G. will be called Devasena because the gods Puņņabhadda and Māņibhadda (cf. C 8 above) will be his generals.--For Bebhela HOERNLE has Vibhela.
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