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[ Mahavira's severe Restrictions in Kaushambi
city, his prime minister, and astrologers too tried to know them, but all failed. Four months thus passed but the vows could not be fulfilled.
The Lord would have to wait for at least a quarter to two months before breaking the fast. In the mean time, let us pause to consider how, where and by whom were his vows fulfilled. In this world, which is full of ups and down, the chariot of human life moves on two roads, happiness and misery. Both roads cannot be avoided; one has to follow one or the other.
Dadhivahana was the king of Champapuri at that time. He had a wife named Dharini and a beautiful daughter named Vasumati. It appeared from her virtues, from her physical features and from her actions that Vasumati must have been a holy and pious soul in her previous birth. She was born in this world to attain salvation by exhausting her Ghana-ghati Karmas ( viz., the four kinds of Karmas. Jnanavaraniya, Darshanavarniya, Mohaniya, and Antara ya). From her very child-hood, she was given to performing righteous deeds and would have even sacrificed her own life for the sake of religion. By the time she stepped into youth she had become widely known. There were several reasons for this: she was very handsome and attractive; she was blooming with youthfulness; on account of her righteous deeds and the pure blood of her parents, she was extremely modest and good; being a princess, she always sympathised with the poor and the suffering; and lastly, the light of her spiritual knowledge had added glow to her beauty and her chief virtues all the more.
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