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After being initiated into Sadhudharma Udit and Mudit carried out severe spiritual austerities and were absorbed in their endeavours to attain spiritual elevation. Once the two munis set off on a pilgrimage to Sametshikhar, a holy place but during their journey they lost their way. In consequence, they happened to reach a village in a forest in which savage and cruel people lived. The village was called Navapalli.
After dying at the hands of Udit, Vasubhuti had taken birth in this village. Seeing the two munis entering the village Vasubhuti who was now a robber ran forward to kill them but the chieftain of the village stopped him and then showed the munis the way to Sametshikhar.
The sage Kulabhushan continued his narration with deep absorption. Just then Shri Ram asked the muni :
"Gurudev ! Why did the Chieftain of the robbers save the life of the munis ?”
"Oh you great man! The chieftain was a deer in his earlier janma. During that time Udit and Mudit had taken birth in the family of a farmer.
Once they took pity on the deer and saved its life from a hunter. This was the cause for his kindness to the munis."
“What happened later ?!
After having visited Sametshikhar, they carried out Vihar for a long time through many areas. They carried out extremely austere spiritual endeavours and breathed their last, while they were in Samadhi, (a state of spiritual ecstasy). After their death they took birth in heaven as heavenly beings.
Vasubhuti's jiva after his death was born in a heavenly world called Jyothish. After ending his existence there he was born as the son of Kanakprabha, the queen-consort of king Priyamvad of the city of Arishtapurnagar. He was named Anuddhar.
Udit and Mudit after ending their existence in the heavenly world were born as the sons of Queen Padmavati, a gentle and
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