Agam 11 Ang 11 Vipak Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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VipakShrut- Ang-11- ShrutSkandh-1, Chapter-7
her forehead, she enters the temple of Umbaradatt Yaksh. There she performs worship as before and burns incense. Once that is done she returns to the pushkarini.
At the pushkarini the accompanying ladies embellish Gangadatta with all kinds of ornaments. Then Gangadatta enjoys the food and six kinds of wine they brought along and satisfies her dohad. She returns home once her dohad is satisfied. Pleased by the fulfillment of her dohad, Gangadatta carries the fetus happily.
After nine months of pregnancy, that Gangadatta gave birth to a son. Following their family tradition, the parents celebrated the birth of their son. Then they performed the naming ceremony-"As this child was born through the favour of Umbaradatt Yaksh he should be named Umbaradatt." And child Umbaradatt began to grow up in care of five nursemaids.
Some time later Sagaradatt Sarthavaha died (like Vijayamitra during a sea voyage). In due course Gangadatta also died. Like Ujjhitak Umbaradatt was also expelled from his house by state guards and his house was given to some other person. (Helpless Umbaradatt starts living on alms.) At some point of time Umbaradatt was inflicted by sixteen diseases, namely Asthma, Bronchitis,... and so on up to... Leprosy. Suffering from these sixteen deadly diseases and with decayed limbs Umbaradatt leads a miserable life.
Bhagavan added-"Gautam! This way that young Umbaradatt is biding his time in excruciating pain, suffering horribly for the sinful deeds he committed in the past. That is what you just saw."
Commentary-almost all stories in this book describe a common situation that the son is expelled from the house by state officials on death of his parents. The commentator (Tika) surmises that at the time of going on asea voyage for trading, the seafaring merchant must have taken loans from other merchants. When the ship capsized he lost all his merchandise and wealth. The creditors must have appealed to the king for realization of their dues and the king must have ordered to auction the property after expelling the heirs. This could be the prevalent practice at that time. That must have been the reason for the sons of defaulters to go begging house to house for living.
Meaning-.Gautam Swami asked-"Bhante! After his death where will this Umbaradatt go? Where will he be reborn?
Bhagavan replied-Gautam! After completing his life-span of seventy two years, Umbaradatt will die and reincarnate as an infernal being in the first hell named Ratnaprabha. From there he will follow the cycles of rebirths as mentioned in the first chapter in context of Mrigaputra... and so on up to... will be born millions of times in all hells, as all animals, and as all one sensed beings.
Coming out from there, he will be born as a cock in Hastinapur city. After being killed by some evil persons, he will reincarnate as a son in a merchant family of the same Hastinapur city. There he will gain righteousness (samyaktva). From there he will reincarnate in the first heaven named Saudharm Devlok. Descending from there he will take birth in Mahavideh area and follow ascetic conduct immaculately. At last he will get enlightened and attain status of Siddha shedding all his karmas and ending all misery.
Aagam - 11 - Vipak-Shrut
Compiled by - Deepratnasagar
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