Agam 19 Upang 08 Niryavalika Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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Nirayaavalika-Upang-8- Chapter-1 Shrenik refuted— "Why do you tell a lie? The ascetic followers of Bhagavan Mahavir are upright and immaculate in maintaining purity of conduct."
On proceding ahead Shrenik saw a young and beautiful saadhvi (female ascetic) washing parts of her body on the bank of a lake. The king was surprised when he also found that she was pregnant. He admonished her for this misdeed. The saadhvi slandered all the saadhvis of Bhagavan Mahavir's order blaming them generally indulging in such misdeeds.
The king rebuked her—"You should be ashamed of blaming falsely the true followers of ascetic conduct just in order to conceal your misdeed. It is my unwavering belief that all the shramans and shramanis (male and female ascetics) of Bhagavan Mahavir's order are true followers of pure ascetic conduct. What you say is absolutely false."
Seeing King Shrenik's absolutely unwavering faith for Bhagavan Mahavir's order a divine person appeared and said after greeting—"O King Indra had praised your perfect righteousness. In order to test it I created all this. Please pardon me. You are, indeed, an extremely righteous person with purity of faith." With this honour the god gave two gifts to King Shrenik-a divine eighteen string necklace and two earthen balls. The king gave the Vankachula necklace to Queen Chelana and the earthen balls to Abhaya Kumar's mother Queen Nanda. Queen Nanda felt insulted on seeing the earthen balls and threw them. The balls broke and from one came out a pair of divine earrings and from the other a divine dress.
The great elephant Sechanak and the divine eighteen string necklace called Vankachula were two priceless treasures of the state of Magadh. According to Avashyak Churni these two were valued to be equal to all the remaining wealth of the Magadh empire.
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Aagam - 19 - Nirayaavalika
Compiled by - Deepratnasagar
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