________________
94
SANDHI XXI Bhavi sayatta resolves to renounce, giving the kingdom to his son Suppaha. Kamala and Bhavisāņuruvā follow him.
I All are grateful to the sage that he told them the story of their previous births. They request him to teach them the way to Nirvana.
1. Jacobi reads aunt and to separately. But it is scarcely necessary to do so. qus -the kingdom of the earth.'
II Prince Bhavisa wants to renounce the kingdom and the world and announces his intention to all.
III He returns to the palace and distributes rewards amongst people.
IV How Bhavisa tells about the past happenings to his mother, who is happy that her son would be crowned king. She now wants to retire.
13. Read gartre together.
V But Bhavisāņurūvā would not allow her to go alone. She would accompany her, leaving husband, child and kingdom to Sumitrā.
VI Bhavisa then calls together his father, king Bhuvāla, Kamala, Priyasundari and others and tells them his intention of becoming a Jain mendicant. He entrusts the kingdom to his son Suppaha.
1. Jacobi has two as in the line, one of them being unnecessary, 3. fafafa-Jacobi's edition has fafara. 4. Read fafafa for fafourfa. Read frate for persary.
8. Jacobi's edition lacks one word of four mātrās, famae of our edition suits exactly.
VII The son persuades the father not to renounce the kingdon life. A righteous king like him did not require renunciation.
3. Perhaps to read gafe fTETRÅD? 'Surrounded by the moat of the sea.' Jacobi's edition reads afastsafe afteTaHa-which is not very clear. He is therefore obliged to give up to the limits of the world' as equivalent of freewa; he is of course doubtful.
4. gefa of our edition is unintelligible. Jacobi's fa should be preferred. Or perhaps Fifa is meant. The line then would read capitally. He aufa ( fr ) Ciccia dafa a The faufa. The latter half of the line in Jacobi (fears) ar are farüfa is not so intelligible. Possibly there is a misreading of a fora.
11. Read it fros-9: afeg: 'houseless.'
13. 937 stands for gat. A afa: farl-I should know better than you.' Jacobi does not know what to do with qers.
VIII When Suppaha sees that Bhavisa is obdurate, he proposes to his younger brother Dharaninda that he should become king and himself (Suppaha) with their other brothers would be his advisers.
