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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
AJITASENA-VYAKARANAM
time the king came with his son to the hermitage and found him as a mere lump (of flesh). Seeing this, he became very remorseful, and was going to cut himself asunder by a sharp sword, when his son with folded hands said the following verses :
मा शोकचित्तस्य भवे नृपेन्द्र मा वेदयी वेदनमीदृशानि ॥ अात्मघातं करित्वा तु निरये गमिष्यसि । रौरवं नरकं चापि गमिष्यसि सुदारुणं ॥ दक्षिणीयो अयं लोके जरव्याधिप्रमोचकः ।
दुर्लभो दर्शनं अस्य बोधिमार्गस्य दर्शकः ॥ [Do not-grieve, be happy, do not suffer such a pain; by committing suicide you will go to hell. You will go to the frightful Raurava hell. In this world, the saviour of beings from old age and disease is worthy of gifts; difficult it is to have a look at one who shows the path leading to Bodhi].
By such words, the son prevented his father from slaying himself, and told him that the Mahāśrāvaka was engaged in meditation and asked him to retire till the Mahāśrāvaka would rise from same. As soon as the Mahāśrāvaka rose from meditation, he asked the king to come near him. The king, seeing the bhikṣu (Mahāśrāvaka), took off his crown and placed it on his son's head with the words, “let the kingdom be yours, govern it righteously and not unrighteously.” The son replied, “I have performed innumerable kingly duties (i.e. in previous lives) but never had satisfaction, so let the kingdom be yours, father, I have no desire for kingdom, wealth and power, rule the kingdom righteously.'
The Mahāśrāvaka then dwelt on the merits of offering gifts to monks and advised the king to do so.
At this, the king ordered his ministers to make his chariots ready for going to Jetavana vihāra to see and worship Sākyamuni and hear from him the dharma. When the king was nearing
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