Book Title: Chakkammuvaeso Author(s): Madhusudan Modi Publisher: Oriental InstitutePage 63
________________ Liv pleased with her. The woman-ascetic died and was born in that birth as a sheparrot. Thus the she-parrot told her narrative. The queen wept to hear it. The she-parrot said that on seeing them both she remembered her previous birth. [K. 10.). The king asked the she-parrot what she desired. She asked him to give back to her, her husband alive. The king released the parrot and ordered the paddy-guard to give the couple rice by making it into a heap. The couple was happy and the she-parrot put forth two eggs while her co-wife gave birth to one egg. While her co-wife was out, she took away her egg. When she returned, she began to lament on not seeing her egg. [K. 11.] When she saw her cowife's plight, she had a feeling of mercy and secretly left her egg in its place. The co-wife was pleased to find the egg ; but the she-parrot thereby was bound by her bad act. They all then lived happily on rice there. Once in the Jina-temple came a Cāraṇa-sage. The king asked him about the worship with rice. The sage extolled that worship. [K. 12] The sheparrot heard it. They always began to worship the Jina with rice. All the four after death, having enjoyed in the first heaven were born again. The parrot be. came king Hemaprabha in Hemanagari. The she-parrot became his queen by name Jayasundari. [K. 13.] The co-wife of the parrot became his second queen by name Rati. He had afterwards five hundred wives but his affection was on those two. Once the king suffered from heavy fever. The physicians could not cure him. But in the night a goblin came and told him that if any of his wife, sacrificed herself in fire as an oblation, he would be cured of his fever. [K. 14.] The goblin went away. In the morning, the king told the incident to his ministers. Rati was ready to immolate herself. The king requested her to desist from falling into the fire-altar. But she was firm. (K. 15.) As she was falling, the goblin took her up in the piece of cloth in the mid-air. He was pleased and asked her what she wanted. She said she wanted to have her husband free from fever. People praised her. [K. 16. ] The king asked her for some boon. She said that she would ask for it when she liked. Rati, for a son, worshipped the family-deity and vowed before the deity to offer her the son of Jayasundari as a sacrifice, if she would get a son. She had thereafter two sons but she was thinking how to offer Jayasundari's son as a sacrifice to the deity. The way came to her mind. [K. 17.] She asked the king for a boon to give her the kingdom to rule for five days. Then by the end of a night, she took the son of Jayasundari and was going with him to the temple of the deity in Nandanavana. In the meantime, Vidyunmati, the king of Meghapura, from the air-car saw the child. [K. 18. ] He lifted up the living child and placed a dead one in its place. He took the child to his place and gave it to his queen. He grew up there. [K. 19 ] Rati on the other side offered the dead child to the deity and went home. ButPage Navigation
1 ... 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448