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NIRAYAVALIYĀO
She was married to a Brahmin named Rāstrakūta, and in sixteen years of married life got sixteen twins. She was harrassed by so many children and could not enjoy pleasures of life. Again she met the same band of Suvratās, learnt from them the Jain doctrine, and practising the same was destined to be born as god Soma. ($107-139 ).
The remaining six chapters of this section give similar account of several gods, who, by their good acts of previous life, attained a place in heaven ($ 140-147).
The fourth section is called Pupphacūlā. It consists of ten chapters giving us equal number of stories of ladies, who, as good disciples of a band of nuns called Pupphacūlās, secured a place in heavenly regions, and became goddesses of various names. The first chapter of this section narrates the story of Bhūtā, daughter of a householder Sudamsaņa. This Bhūtā went to pay a visit to Pārsva, became his disciple and finally turned to be a nun under the Pupphacūlās. While practising the vows she took a fancy of regarding everything impure and would go on washing things with water, which act is against the spirit of Jain vow. As a result of this drawback she could not attain emancipation, but became a goddess in her next birth, it being predicted that she could attain Nirvāṇa in
