Chakkammuvaeso

Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Oriental Institute

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Lxi
[K. 9. ] She was stung by a serpent. The physicians could not cure her. She died and was to put on a funeral pyre. At that time Vinayamdhara came there and said that he would cure her. [K. 10.) The king promised him half his kingdom and his daughter if she revived. Vinayamdahara remembered the Yaksa and sprinkled her with the water of a jewel. She woke up and was surprised how she was in the cemetery. They told her the whole incident. The next day he called his minister and asked him who Vinayamdhara was. [K. 11. ] He said that he was the servant of a merchant. The king asked the merchant who told him the whole incident. He was in deep anxiety as to how he should find the way between his promise and the low family of Vinayamdhara. In the meantime, the Yakşa came there and told him the whole story. [K. 12. ) Finding that Vinayamdhara was the son of Kamalā and Vajrasimha, the king of Potanpura, he was glad that he was his sister's son. He married his danghter to him and gave the half of his kingdom. Now Vinayamdhara, knowing his identity, was very angry, marched with a great army and encamped in the precincts of Potanapura. Somebody informed Vajrasimha. [K. 13. ] Vajrasimha marched out to fight. A great battle took place and Vinayamdhara pierced Vajrasimha with arrows and bound him a prisoner. He then applied sandal-paste to his wounds. But some servant told him why he should apply sandal-paste and not his tears to his wounds. The Yaksa appeared there and told him to relent as he was after all his father. [K. 14.] The Yakșa then revealed the identity of Vinayamadhara to his father. Vajrasimha repented his ill-treatment to him. His mother Kamalā was also glad to see him. He was taken to the town with honour. [K. 15.) The king then expressed his desire to give him the kingdom and go for penance. Kamala also declined to take it and he also expressed his desire to give up worldly life. Both practised penance. After being gods, the fathergod was born as a king named Pūrņacandra in Kșemapura. The son-god was born as a son to a merchant by name Kşemamkara. His name was Dhūpasāra.
The fine fragrance of incense naturally emanated from his body. [K. 16.] People were amazed at that wonderful fragrance and they requsted the king how that fragrance came out of the body of the merchant's son. He was called and he informed that it was natural. The angry king then got his body smeared with nightsoil. He bore this meekly. The former Yakşa-couple now born as a god-couple saw him while passing in their air-car. [K. 17.) They washed him with fragrant water and having praised him, they gave him good clothes and fragrance. The king saw that, bowed to him and asked pardon of Dhūpasāra. He said it was not the king's but his own fault of the previous birth. The king brought Dhūpasāra to his palace. A sage came in the garden. The king went with Dhūpasāra there and requested the sage to inform him about the story of Dhūpasāra. TK. 18.] He informed him that he was his own son Vinayamdhara in the third previous birth. He then told the whole previous incident. Both of them were initiated as monks. After several births they would attain absolution.