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ARDHA-MAGADHI READER ed, were freed from the danger of fire ; but being. overcome with hunger and thirst came out of that enclosure and ran in every direction.
63. Then you, Meha, worn-out, with your body shattered with old age, and being struck by lightning, fell on the earth within that very enclosure. Then in your body, Meha, arose a sharp pain. Then you Meha, suffered from that sharp pain for three days and nights and thus completing your full age of a hundred years, were re-born in the womb of Queen Dhári. pí, as a Prince to King Seniya in the city of Ráyagiha, in the country of Bháraha of this very Jambú continent'.
64. Then you Meha, in due order coming out of the womb, passing the childhood and entering on youth, shaving your head in my presence, entered the monastic Order from the domestic one.
65. If you, Meha, born among lower creatures, and unpossessed of the Jewel of Faith, could keep that foot raised in the sky and did not place it on the ground, I wonder, now, Meha, born in a high family endowed with five sense-organs, also possess. ed of exertion, power, energy, manhood and valour, moreover having entered the Order in my presence, you do not calmly bear, forgive or suffer the collision of the. Niggantha Ascetics going out at night for lessons or enquiries.
66. Then hearing and listening this matter from the Ascetic, Lord Mahávíra, his motives being
The account of other two births is omitted here,
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