Agam 11 Ang 11 Vipak Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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VipakShrut- Ang-11- ShrutSkandh-1, Chapter-4
Subhadra Sarthavaha and Bhadraa had a son named Shakat who was also endowed with perfect and beautiful body.
During that period of time Shraman Bhagavan Mahavir arrived at Devaraman garden outside Saahanjani city. People and the king came to pay homage. Bhagavan gave his discourse to all after which the king and the people returned home.
During that period of time, while returning after collecting alms in the city, Gautam Swami, the senior disciple of Shraman Bhagavan Mahavir, came to the main road. There he saw many elephants, horses and foot soldiers duly equipped with armours and weapons. Amongst them he saw a man, accompanied by a woman, with his ears and nose cut off, tied in the avakotak bond (bending the neck and tying it with hands already tied at the back). Announcement was being made about him. Gautam Swami was thoughtful (on hearing the announcement, seeing all this, and the person in pathetic condition). He came to Bhagavan Mahavir and asked about it. In reply Bhagavan said
Gautam! During that period of time there was a prosperous city, called Chhagalpur in Bharatvarsh area in Jambu continent. A king named Simhagiri was the ruler of that city. He was as majestic as the Himalayas:, In that city lived a chhagalik (a butcher selling goat meat) named Chhannik who was rich, irreligious and evil, and he derived enjoyment in sinful deeds only.
That Chhanik Chhagalik had many cattle-corrals which could accommodate hundreds and thousands of animals like goats, sheep, Rojhas (Neelagaya or black-buck), bulls, hares, young deer, pigs, lions, deer, peacocks and buffaloes. Such animals were stocked there. Numerous men were employed there on wages and food. They used to look after and protect these animals including goats... and so on up to... buffaloes.
Those numerous men, employed on wages and food, used to butcher thousands of these animals including goats... and so on up to... buffaloes, cut and chop their meat with knives and shears, and give it to Chhanik Chhagalik.
His many other servants earned their living by frying, baking, and roasting meat of those goats and other animals on metal and earthen plates, pans, and a variety of other cooking pots as well as with sticks on burning charcoal.
That Chhanik too spent his life enjoying aforesaid dishes of meat of goats (etc.) with five kinds of wine.Chhanik Chhagalik had made it his daily duty to sell and eat meat of goats (etc.) and drink five kinds of wine. He was ever involved in these sinful activities. These activities had become his way and ideal of life and he had accepted all these sinful activities to be the best of conduct. As a consequence he acquired extremely malevolent and pain causing karmas in abundance. After completing his life-span of seven hundred years, he died and reincarnated as an infernal being in the fourth hell where the maximum life span is ten Sagaropam.
[25] Meaning- Bhadraa, the wife of Subhadra Sarthavaha was a jatunandika (a woman whose offspring die at birth). On leaving the fourth hell, the soul of that Chhanik Chhagalik was conceived as a son in the womb of Bhadraa, the wife of Subhadra Sarthavaha in Saahanjani city.
In due course, on completion of nine months, Bhadraa Sarthavahi gave birth to a son. Immediately after his birth the parents placed the child under a shakat (bullock cart)
Aagam - 11 - Vipak-Shrut
Compiled by - Deepratnasagar
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