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The god became enraged at this impossible request, and reduced him to ashes right on the spot (152).
According to the Buddhist tradition, Ajatasatru was murdered by his son, Udaybhadra, who was greedy of the kingdom(153).
The only common element between the two traditions has been that after his death, Ajātas átru Kūņika went to hell, Tamahprabhava according to the Jaina, and Lo hakumbhiya. according to the Buddhist (154). There are in all seven hells according to the Jainas (155), and eight according to the Buddhists (156). In the Buddhist version, after passing through many births, Ajātas atru would be born as a Pratyeka Buddha, when he will be liberated(157).
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Previous Births of Kūņika
We have an account of Kūņika's previous births in both the traditions (158). Their factual details widely differ, but they have a similarity if fundamentals. The similarity is that in one of his previous lives, Sŕenika had murdered Kūnika.
Abhayakumara
More mysterious than the life of either Srenika Bimbisara or Ajatasatru Kuņika is the life of Prince Abhayakumāra. Not only the two traditions claim him to be their own follower, they go even so far as to claim him to have · been initiated as a monk in their respective orders. According to the Agamas, he was initiated by Mahavira himself, and according to the Tripitakas, by the Buddha himself.
Birth of Abhayakumāra
According to the Jaina account, he was born of Queen Nanda, wife of Srenika Bhambhasara, (159). She was the daughter of a Sresthi named Dhanvaha who lived at Vennatatapura (160). In his youth, when Srenika was exiled, he went to that city when he married her. Abhayakumāra spent first eight years of his life at the house of his maternal grand-father. After that, both mother and son were brought to Rajagṛha (161).
