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Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira.
Vol I Part 11 CHAHTER I. Sixteenth Previous Bhava. Birth of Vibyabhūti Kumāra-Visvabhūti Kumāra going to Puspa-karaņdaka garden for amusement during Spring Festival-Viśvabhaūti Kumā. ra treacherously sent with a large army to fight with a frontier feudatory prince at the instigation of Queen Madana-lékhā. When Visvabhūti Kumāra returned home, he realised that it was a well-designed plan of Madana-lèkhā to drive him out from the garden to make room for her son Visākha-nandi. Becoming enraged at this insulting diplomacy, Visvabhūti Kumāra renounces the pleasurable enjoyments of the world, and he takes Bhāgavati Dikṣā at the hands of Ācārya Sambhūti Sūri. Visvabhūti Muni practised severe austerities during his ascetic life, and went to various towns and villages with the object of preaching the principles of the Tirthankaras.-When Visvabhâti Muni-whose body had become greatly debilitated by continuous fastings and strict penances-was going for alms after a continuous fasting of one month at Mathurā (Muttrā), he was accidentally knocked down by a rushing cow. On seeing that Visvabhūti Muni had fallen down on the ground owing to a strong impact with the body of the cow, his cousin Višākha-nandi who had gone to Mathurā with a number of his attendents on his marriage-ceremony with the daughter of the king of that place, began to crack jokes at the withered condition of the body of Viśvabhūti Muni. The penitent Muni was greatly offended, and he made a niyāņa-nidāna-a firm determination to be able to possess, after death, sufficient strength to kill all those persons at one blow, by way of revenge. Athough Visvabhûti Muni was repeatedly advised by Sthaviras and others to desist from the attempt, he
