Jain Journal 1970 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 39

APRIL, 1970
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one on the wall. The Wise One said, 'When she makes a great outcry, on the accomplishment of Gardhabhilla's rites, immediately every creature two or four-footed in our army will fall to the ground with blood pouring from his mouth. Withdraw, therefore, two miles from the walls but give me a hundred and eight accomplished bowmen.' So did they.
The Wise One said, to the bowmen, 'When the ass opens her mouth to cry, stop her mouth with arrows before she utters a sound.' They stopped the ass's mouth with a hail of arrows, so that it could not utter any sound; and the magic beast fell dead outright. After this they stormed the walls and entered Ujjayini. Gardhabhilla was captured and banished. Then the princes appointed him as Sahi whom the Wise One chose. Since they were of the Saka race, they were called Sakas, and thus began the Saka dynasty.
Kalaka in Pratisthana Balamitra and Bhanumitra, nephews of Kalakacarya, were king and crown prince of Bhrigukaccha. Their sister Bhanusri had a son named Balabhanu. The two brothers hearing of their uncle's residence in Ujjayini sent an ambassador, with whom Kalakacarya returned. In Bhrigukaccha he preached to his nephews, their sister and her son. The latter was converted, and so too were many nobles and townspeople. The household priest of Balamitra making objections, begging was forbidden. Kalakacarya departed to Pratisthana where the pious king Salibahana (Satabahana) ruled.
Salibahana was a devoted lay follower. When he learned that the Suri was coming he came out to him with his retenue and brought him into the city with great pomp and settled him there. In due course the Paryūṣaṇa season arrived. There in the land of Maharastra on the fifth of the bright half of the month of Bhadrapada, a festival of Indra took place. So the king made representation to the Suri to shift the date on the sixth. Kalakacarya said that was impossible but it could be shifted on the fourth.
The king said, 'If that is so, then let it come on the fourth.
The king returned with joy and asked his wives to observe the new-moon fast so that at the time of breaking the fast afterwards they might give the monks breakfast.
It was thus with reason that the master Kalaka transferred the Paryüsana to the fourth and the entire Congragation concurred ; and