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[15] ELAICHI KUMAR (One who sees fault in himself)
ELAICHI KUMAR
KING MUNJ
(1) Once a Brahmin and his wife renounced the world and became Jain monks. His wife kept her body and clothes clean and felt proud of her caste. (2) As a fruit of being a Jain monk both became deities of heaven. (3) In their third birth they became a Prince Elaichi Kumar and a dancer respectively. One day, watching the Girl dancing, Elaichi got attracted to her. His parents and relatives tried to explain him but he left with her & learnt dancing. (4) In another city, the lady dancer and Elaichi Kumar performed a dance on a rope before the King, Queen & many other people of the city. They kept dancing expecting money from the King. But the King got attracted to the girl dancer and thought, if Elaichi Kumar falls off the rope and die, so that he could have girl dancer. (5) While dancing on the rope, Elaichi Kumar saw a very serene & composed Jain monk receiving food from a beautiful girl but monk refrained from even looking at the girl. Elaichi Kumar felt ashamed of himself and started hating on his longing for lust. He admired the calm composure of this monk & attained Supreme Knowledge (Kewal Gyan). He gave sermons. The girl dancer hearing about her previous birth, she hated her beauty that brings disaster. King & his Queen also repented their desire for worldly pleasures. All attained Keval Gyan.
KING MUNJ (Female Voluptuousness) (1) King Munj was under the fear that Bhoj would take his kingdom and so ordered to kill Bhoj. On reading the Shlok written by Bhoj about uncertainty of kingdoms and its mortality, King Munj gives the Kingdom to Bhoj. (2) Defeated in war against Telang, Munj became a prisoner and gets attracted to Telang's sister Mrinalwati. (3) Bhoj made a tunnel to the prison and asked King Munj to escape through it. (4) Munj told his beloved Mrinalwati about his escape. She went and informed her brother King immediately. To punish him the King put fetters around his hands & legs and gave him orders to beg for food. Munj shouts and tells people so that they realize the result of craving for lust and women. Munj had to face such hardships and beg for food.
Inspired By: Jain Acharya Shri Bhuvanbhanusuriswarji Malunasaheb
