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to prepare some special dish for him and forbade her to make the offering But the lady soon found a pretext She announced that the first preparation was all spoiled on the oven and deposited the whole stuff on the grave, Dhannya ot once took her to task But the lady was undaunted and she hurled the cauldron-full of boiling oil on his body, burning him severely. Dhannya left the house at once and returned to his parents, whose care and affection cured him Now, he felt, he had seen enough of the world and it was time for him to renounce This he did and joined the holy order, Here I am But just now the memory of the past had come up and so did I say, Fear, Extreme Fear.
"The sun rose in the east and Abhayakumar was now pieparing to depart He came to take leave of the Acharya and pay him homage, when he saw the queen's necklace round his neck Now he realised why all the four monks had sensed different degrees of 'fear' at different quarters of the night, but he had no doubt in the Acharya's innocence The necklace was on his neck by some chance. He picked it up from the Acharya's neck and restored it to the king
"So, Kunchika, you should understand that a sramana free from all greed does not even look at another man's wealth, what to speak of usurping it You are unnecessarily laying the blame on me
"What you say, sir, is true of the sramanas They are free from greed and attachment But you appear to be far apart from them, and so you have been tempted by my wealth Your temptation has not been less than that of the legendary lion'
What lion? Who was he? What was his conduct ?" The merchant then started the story of the lion
“King Jitasatru bad a physician named Devadatta who had two sons, Jivananda and Kesava , but the father had no
