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time when they got closer to the statue of princess Mall and removed the cover on the hole as the entire atmosphere was filled with stench. All the six kings shut their nose with their upper cloth and sat turning the other way.
Seeing this condition of the kings, princess Mall said, “Oh great men! Why are you sitting this way? Why have you shut your nose with a cloth?” The kings replied, 'Oh princess we are unable to bear this stench.” To this princess Mall said, "Everyday one morsel of food prepared for me has been put into this statue. If the minute transformation of the food particles thrown there can cause such a stench, then filled with many kinds of impurities, home to disease, a body made of bones and skin, the ample food that is put into it everyday, how much bad odour would result from it? Hence oh dear ones! Realising this permanent truth you should not get stuck in worldly sensual pleasures”.
Remember in our third birth prior to this one, we were deep and close friends, princes in the V ta ok city, capital of Salil vat Vijaya, in Mah Videha province. We did everything together in life and took initiation into monkhood together and becoming monks, decided that we shall do penance together and din the same manner. But I deceived you fellow monks. In the initial period of monkhood, I did more penance in hiding from you, as a result of which karma I got a female form. Later we did the same kind of tough penance and fasts with pure feeling. I observed tough fasts to obtain the T rthamkara n makarma through 20 sth nakas several times and consequently gained the T rthamkara n makarma. We were all immersed in our austerities. In the end all seven of us took samlekhan together on Cr Mountain and completing our time in observation of the fast, became ahamindras in the anuttaravim nanamed Jayanta. In Jayanta vim na you had fewer years than I did and hence you left there sooner and became kings of six republics. I completed my 32 s gara years and was born here. Remember your god-form, where we had resolved that once we left the godly abode we shall meet each other.
Listening to the description of their previous births the kings were lost in thought. In that state they gained the knowledge of their past. All the six kings went to Mall. Mall said, "I am tired of worldly life and I shall now become a mendicant. You are free to take a decision as per your wishes”. Hearing goddess Mall 's words they said in that case they
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