Jain Legend Vol 2

Author(s): Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana

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the next day he presses the contrivance with his feet and obtains the bag, thus fooling the common people.
After knowing this, the next night aka ra got the bag of gold coins that Vararuchi kept, removed by his spy.
The next day before sunrise itself, a large crowd gathered near the banks of the river Gamga. At the appropriate time, Mah r ja Nanda, the king of Magadha along with his Prime Minister and other officials reached the river bank. Vararuchi took bath in the river and then started invoking Gamg . After the invocation, as usual Vararuchi pressed the contrivance with his foot. All of a sudden a hand came out of the waves of Gamg , but it was totally empty. There was no bag of gold coins. Vararuchi dived into the river and searched for the bag of gold coins in the water, but in vain. He stood silently with his head bent.
“Here is your bag of 108 gold coins, which you have deposited last night in the river."Saying these words, the Prime Minister aka ra kept the bag of gold coins in Vararuchi's hand. Vararuchi experienced much more pain than death itself, at the sight of the abhorrence and the repulsion in the eyes of the people. He was so abashed that his deception was caught that he did not step out of his house for several days. Holding Prime Minister aka ra responsible for his mass insult, Vararuchi spent days and nights trying to find some weakness of aka ra to take revenge on him.
One day, through a maid of aka ra, Vararuchi came to know that Prime Minister aka ra, on the eve of his son r yaka's marriage, had ordered beautiful and expensive insignia like umbrellas, etc and custom-built, state-of-the-art destroyer weapons to offer as a gift to Mah r ja Nanda.
Conspiracy of Vararuchi againstaka ra
To take his revenge on aka ra, Vararuchi considered the information he got as the most appropriate one to plan a future conspiracy. He wrote a verse, the summary of which is as follows: “Mah r ja Nanda doesn't know what Prime Minister aka ra wants to do. After killing Nanda aka ra wants to make his son r yaka, one day the king of Magadha.”
He mobilised a group of young boys (in the age group 6 to 10) by offering sweetmeats, etc. and made them by-heart the above-mentioned
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