Agam 08 Ang 08 Antkrutdashang Sutra Sthanakvasi

Author(s): Amarmuni, Shreechand Surana, Rajkumar Jain, Purushottamsingh Sardar
Publisher: Padma Prakashan

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Elucidation
Seeing monk Gaja Sukumāla in meditation why the mind of Somila filled with such a ferocious anger ? There may be many present and past causes of it! Present cause here clearly stated that his daughter Somā was to be wedded with him (Gaja Sukumāla). Väsudeva Śrīkrsna asked and preserved her (Soma) in harem of maidens. When Gaja Sukumāla accepted monkhood leaving that maiden then Somila raged in fury.
The other past cause also pointed in Agama by words-tam veram saraïremembering the enmity' and 'anega bhava-saya sahassa sanciyam kammam udiremaņeņam- performing udiraņā of accumulated karmas of million former births'. In this context a story is popular about the former birth of Somila and Gaja Sukumäla. The episode is this
The soul of Gaja Sukumäla was a queen of a king in his innumerous former birth. That king had another queen also. That queen had given birth to a son so she became more beloved of that king. So the queen (soul of Gaja Sukumāla) began to have feelings of detachment towards that other queen and have keen desire that her son may die somehow.
Per chance a boil took place in the son's head. Child began to flounder due to agony. Step mother (soul of Gaja Sukumāla) said to the mother of that child that I know the treatment of this disease. The mother of child gave her son to step mother. Step mother binded a hot horse-bean bread on the head of the child. Due to serious agony child floundered much and died. After a long-long period the soul of that child took birth as Somila and that of step mother as Gaja Sukumäla.
Verāņubandhini mahabbhayāṇi-The bondages of enmity are most ferocious. So by the remembrance of this former enmity Somila raged in fury, and for taking the revenge, his ill feelings aroused to take wet clay to make the raised up sides on the head of monk and to fill it with the burning coals of khair fuel.
He had done such cruel deed due to former enmity.
[Antakrd-daśā Sūtra Hindi Commentary by Atmārāmaji Mahārāja p.18] सूत्र २९ :
तं सेयं खलु मम गयसुकुमालस्स वेरनिज्जायणं करित्तए । एवं संपेहेइ,
संपेहित्ता दिसापडिलेहणं करेइ, करित्ता सरसं मट्टियं गिण्हइ । गिण्हित्ता • 902.
अन्तकृदशा सूत्र : तृतीय वर्ग