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NIRAYAVALIYĀO
The third section is called Pupphiyā and has got ten chapters, each narrating how by religious practices one attains heavens. Thus in the first chapter we are told how a householder named Angai of Sāvatthi became a disciple of Pārsva, and after practising penances was born as moon in the lunar world ($78-86). Similarly the second chapter tells us how a householder, Suppaittha of the same town, became the sun in the solar world by similar practices (887-88). The third chapter is more interesting. It narrates the story of a learned Brahmin Somila by name; when Pārsva was on a visit to Benares, Somila thought he should call on him, and after usual conversations, was converted to Jainism. But after sometime he became slack in his practices of Jain vows, and gradually resumed his Brahmanic ways of thinking. He thus planted all sorts of trees which act is one of the aticāras of Jain vows and as such is prohibited in Jainism. Later he thought he should take the vow of an ascetic dwelling in forest of the class of Disāpokkhiyas, i. e., sprinklers of quarters or space, and began practising fasts of three days at a time. Further in course of time he took a vow to proceed to the end of quarters, and if he fell anywhere in a ditch or so, not to rise up from that place and thus put an end to his life. It is in the course of these wanderings that he met a divine being, who told him that he was going astray. The god repeatedly warned him
