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NOTES
16. परसुनियत्ता विव चम्पगल्या, like a young चम्पक plant, lopped off by an axe. ggg is explained by चन्द्रसूरि as उत्थानमुत्था उर्ध्व वर्तनं, तया उत्तिष्ठति, ie, he stands by rising from his seat. Phrases of this type are peruliar to all Prakrit literatures.
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18. चउत्थीए पप्पभार पुढवीए, this is the fourth , i.e. region of hell, while seems to be a portion of the same. दससागरोवमठिइएस नेरइएसु, amidst those creatures of hell who are destined to live there for ten सागरोपमs.
20. जहा चित्तां - This चित्त or चित्र was a relative of king . This king once sent him on a mission to श्रावस्ति, where he met a monk केशिकुमार, the pupil of чr, and was converted to Jainism by him.
21. Queen saw a lion in a dream which indicated that she would get a son. The story of the dream of चेलणा is similar to the same of प्रभावती, the queen of and is given in full in Appendix II. संसि तारिससि वासघरंति, in a house of such description.
22. The longings of queen
were strange in that she wanted to eat the flesh of her husband, and as they could not be explained to anybody, remained unfulfilled with the result that she became depressed at heart तंसि दोहलंसि अविणिजमाणमि, when that longing remained unfulfilled. ओमन्थियनयणवयण, the queen whose lotus-like eyes and face were अवमथित, withered.
23. न याणामो, we do not know.
