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PRATISHTHA MAHOTSAV ASHADH 4-12 V.S. 2054
KALAVATI SADHVI (era of Mahavirswami)
Stories Of The Sadhviji
gave bangles of gold to his sister Kalavati as a gift. The other queens didn't know that the bangles were from Jaisingh and thought that the king had been partial to Kalavati. The king was also not aware of who had given the bangles and doubted Kalavati's character. Kalavati was pregnant but the king was so angry that he ordered that her hands cut off. The soldiers followed the command and gave the bangles to the king. Later when the king found out where the bangles had come from, he regretted his awful act and felt enormous guilt. Kalavati however with her piety, got her hands back and gave birth to a beautiful son. When she met Lord Mahavir she asked the reason for the sorrows of her life. The lord told her that in a previous life when she had been a princess she had cut off a bird's wings with an arrow. That bird had been reborn as the king. Kalavati repented her actions, handed her son to the king and took diksha.
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