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12. Citra and Sambhúta'
S. B. E. S., VOL XLV, pp. 56 ff. 1, 2. Being contemptuously treated for the sake of his birth as a Cándála Sambhúta took, in Hastinapura, the sinful resolution to become a universal monarch in some Inter birth ; descending from the heavenly region Padmagulma, he was born of Culani in Kámpilya as Brahma datta ; Citra, however, was born in the town Puritamála in the great family of of a merchant, when he had heard the Law, he entered the order.
3. In to town Kámpilya, both Sambhúta and Citra as they were called in a former birth met again and told each other the reward they had realised for their good and bad actions.
4. The universal monarch Brahmadatta, the powerful and glorious king, respectfully addressed the following words to him who had been his brother in a former birth.
5. We were brothers once, kind to each other, loving eacli other, wishing well to each other.
6. "We were slaves in the country of the Dasárņas, then antelopes on the mount Kálanjara,
1. The stories about Citra and Sambhúta and the fate they underwent in many births are common to Brahmans, Jainas, and Buddhists. The whole subject has been exhaustively dealt with by Prof. Leumann in two learned parers (German) in the Vienna Oriental Journal, Vol V pp. 111ff and Vol VI pp. 1ff. where the text of the Prábrit Text of Chapters XIII and XIV together with a German translation is published.
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