Chakkammuvaeso

Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Oriental Institute

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Jayasundari was drowned in grief. Her son brought up by the Vidyadhara saw her own mother in the garden, while he was going in his air-car. She was shedding tears. He came down and took her in his air-car. The king saw it; but he could not do anything as he was unable to go in the sky. The king was sad to lose his queen as well as his son. The prince took Jayasundari in his garden. [K. 20]. The son, not knowing her mother, fell in love with her, while they were sitting there under a mango-tree. The two young ones of the parrot, after death were the couple of gods; and they passed by that tree. The goddess informed the god that it was a strange sight that a son made love to a mother. The talk was heard by the prince and Jayasundari, and they looked up. They saw the celestial couple and asked it why both of them said so. [K. 21] The goddess asked Jayasundari if she remembered her previous life of a she-parrot. She said "You were our parents in your incarnation as a parrot-couple. We two were your young ones and are now born as the god-couple. That god has become your son. We saw the evil happening and acquainted you with the fact." Then the couple went away in the air-car. Madanakumāra then fell at the feet of his mother in contrition. She told him the whole incident how he was lost; and her affliction then was over on seeing him. [K. 22] The Vidyadhara parents who adopted him, asked him where he was so long. When Vidyadhari was alone, he asked her how he was there. She said she did not know anything and that the Vidyadhara might inform him. The Vidyadhara told him the whole incident. On that side, king Hemaprabha was grieved how his beloved queen Jayasundari was lost. [K. 23]. At that time the garden-keeper told him that a monk named Śrutasagara had come in the garden. He possessed Avadhi knowledge. The king was pleased. He asked him about his loss. The monk said that she was taken away by his son. The king replied that her only son was dead and that she had no other son and asked him to clear his doubt. [K. 24]. The monk told him the whole episode of Rati. In the meantime Madanakumāra came there with his mother to pay homage to the monk. The whole mystery was then solved. The king asked him why he suffered separation from his son. [K. 25.] The sage informed him that when he and Jayasundari were a parrot-couple and Rati was his parrot co-wife, Jayasundari as a she-parrot stole for sixteen muhurtas the egg of her co-wife but then put it back out of sympathy. That was the reason why he suffered the separation from his son for 16 years. The reconciliation between Rati and Jayasundari took place. Then the king asked the monk how he got the kingdom and how he should expiate his past bad action. [K. 26.] He replied that they got the kingdom on account of their worship of the Jina with rice. Then he added that he would get the eternal happiness with the passage of time. The king gave over his kingdom to the son of Rati and along with Jayasundari, her son and Rati, took to monkhood.