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this. He went to the Lord and prayed – “Lord, you are detached and allpowerful. My livelihood has suffered because of your stay here. Please have mercy on me and go elsewhere.” The Lord understood the meaning and pain of Acchamdaka and left that place, moving towards north Vcl. On the way to Vcl, by the banks of the Suvar ak 1, the Lord's devad ya got stuck in the thorns and fell off; the Lord turned back to see if the devad ya had not fallen off in the wrong place. When he saw the cloth stuck in the thorns, he realised that the disciples will obtain the cloth easily. Giving up the cloth, the Lord became naked and remained without a cloth (acela) throughout his life. With the desire to obtain the devad ya, a Brahmin acquaintance of king Siddh rtha who was following the Lord took the cloth and went home.
Awakening of Ca dakau ika
Moving towards north Vcl the Lord reached a hermitage named Kanakhamala. There were two paths to go to north Vcl from that hermitage; One through the hermitage, and the other from the outside. The Lord took the straight path. Reaching some distance, he came across two herdsmen. They told the Lord – “There is a forest ahead on this path where lives a dreaded viper named Candakausika who just looks at the travelers with his poisonous eyes and reduces them to ashes. It would be better if you took the other path.” The Lord thought – “Ca dakau ika is a magnificent being, hence through awakening he will certainly gain knowledge” and he moved on that same path with the intention of redeeming Caņdakauśika.
In his past life, Caņdakausika was an ascetic. One day, to break his fast, he left with his disciple for alms. Suddenly a frog was crushed under the monk's feet on the way. Seeing this the disciple said - "Oh teacher, crushed by your feet the frog is dead.” The monk said nothing. The disciple thought that the teacher would repent for this in the evening at the time of ritual confession (pratikrama a). But when the monk did not repent for this bad deed in the evening the disciple again reminded him of the death of the female frog and asked him to repent. The monk got angry with the disciple reminding him repeatedly to repent and went to kill the disciple. In a fit of anger, he hit himself against a pole and died at once. After death, he became a jyoti kagod.
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