Illustrated Namokara Mahamantra

Author(s): Shreechand Surana, Surendra Bothra
Publisher: Diwakar Prakashan

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THE MIRACLE OF NAMOKĀRA : DEFEAT OF EVIL POWER There was a beautiful garden outside the city of Rājagrha. It was named Gunaśīlaka. Arjuna Māli was the guard of this garden.
One morning while Arjuna was picking flowers with his wife Bandhumatī, six gangsters came there. Seeing Arjund's young and beautiful wife they were consumed by passion. All six ruffians joined to tie up Arjuna and raped his wife in his presence.
Arjuna boiled with anger. But as he was tied up he could not even throw a pebble. Right in front was the temple of his family deity Mudgara-Pāni Yakşa. In the state of excitement Arjuna addressed the Yakşa, "O family deity! till to day I have served you and prayed you with great devotion. I believed you to be a god, but today it has been revealed that you are not a god, you are a mere stone-statue. In your temple, before my own eyes, these rascals are violating my wife and you are reduced to a mute witness. Had you had even a trace of power you would not have allowed this torture.”
Uttering these words Arjuna was consumed by a storm of anger and remorse. The next moment an intense current flowed through his body. He shook his body with all his strength and the bonds were broken. Arjuna lifted the large mace that was in the hands of the idol of the Yaksa. He shouted a challenge to the ruffians and within a moment killed his wife and all the six gangsters. The intensity of his anger was such that he turned into a psychopathic killer and roamed around with the mace in his hand. He would kill whoever came in his way. Full of rage, Arjuna started killing six men and a woman everyday.
Terrible waves of terror engulfed the town of Rājagrha. The town gates were closed in apprehension.
One day Lord Mahāvīra arrived in the Gunasilaka garden outside the town of Rājagrha. No one came out of the town to see Lord Mahāvīra due to the terror of Arjuna.