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MARCH, 1903.)
THE LEGEND OF KUNJARAKARNA.
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“Ah, elder brother Yamadhipatil your explanation is perfectly clear; on hearing your words my heart is struck with pain; my desire to live is gone, now that I have heard your words, O elder brother Yamadhipati. Whence is the evil-doer to come, O elder brother?"
"Ah, brother Kunjarakarna! the evil man comes from heaven. Have you never heard, Kunjarakarna, of a certain mighty Vidyadhara, son of Indra, called Parnavijaya? He is to come from Indra's heaven. Great is his guilt, especially great is his wickedness, he is shameless, arrogant, ravishes prohibited women, punishes innocent men, defies the elders, mocks the anhappy. He has been repeatedly warned to refrain from his misdeeds, but he was carried away by his former Dushkrili, his former evil conduct, which, after his death, will bring him to the cauldron of hell."
“Ah, what do you say, elder brother Yamadhipati Shall Parnavijaya go into the cauldron ?"
“Yes, dear brother, for his guilt is sore."
Alas! Oh! I am astonished, elder brother Yamadhipati, that Parnavijaya should have 80 sinned. How is it to be explained ? Indeed, he has dwelt so long in heaven and all the gods are subject unto him, also the Vidyadharas and the Vidyadharis are subject to him. That is the reason that I am so amazed. I was jealous when I saw how he was bathed in pleasures, and now he must soon descend into the cauldron! Thereat am I much astonished. Besides, I am his brother in the Order. Therefore am I sorry for him. Nam Bhadra, Namah Siváya! Hearty thanks! It is time for me to go and offer my humble respects to the Lord Vairôchana; I, also, should go into the cauldron maybe, if I showed no reverence to the Lord. May your favour continue towards me, O elder brother Yamadhipati, and may you be my instructor in good."
“And now I will ask you one thing more. When such a wicked man endeavours to be born again, is it permitted to him, O elder brother Yamadhipatip"
" Ah, brother Kunjarakarna, old man! Yes, we allow him then to be born again apon the earth, but only when he has undergone the five states of worldly suffering; then is he born again upon the earth, namely, the skin, flesh, blood, and parts of the body; these are cut fine by us and mingled with flowers strewn upon the earth. Out of this come forth loathsome animals, such as there are: little snakes, earth-worms; (steks, leeches, iris-pohs, caterpillars, all that one holds in horror in the world. A thousand years he remains in this state. Then he dies and is born again as ant, dung-beetle, kukudikan, beetle, bee, kubrem, caterpillar, ant, and black-beetle. In this state he remains a hundred years. Then he is born again as a grasshopper, wutang-walahan, fen-mole, ucit, lobster, tree-snail, water-snail, everything of this kind that is edible ; thus he comes into existence. In this state he remains a thousand years. Then he is born again ag bird, fowl, goose, duck, all kinds of two-footed animals. In this condition he remains a hundred years. Then he is born again as a four-footed animal: civet-cat, ant-eater, squirrel, red squirrel (jalarang), mouse, hedgehog, dwarf-deer, roe-buck, wild boar, polo-cat, all kinds of four-footed animals. In this state ho remains . hundred years. Then is it permitted to him to be born a human being, but a defective being, such as hamp-back, blind, deat, hard-hearing (or leper?), dumb, dwarl, lunatic, dropsical,
hydrocele, a one-eyed man, one who has a cataract on his oyo, -one who suffers from ophthalmia, one with his ears and lips torn, or club-footed, -all kinds of deformed beings upon the earth, These are signs that he comes from Yama's kingdom and all this time he undergoes suffering. Then are they born again, naturally sound in body, as BONVOngor, I watcher of the dead,
beggar, barren, impotent, a luaja, an unlucky wretch, an epileptic, an idiot, one who has an impediment in his speech, who has no songe of smell, who has a defect in his speech, any one who is unhoulthy. These are the signs that one comes out of Yama's kingdom. That is what I have to say to you, dear brother Kunjarakarna. Now return and make your humble reverence to the Lord Vairochana. Implore him to instruct you in the sacred Law, so that the
