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did not leave off his firm resolution, and having died without expiating for his sinful act even on his death-bed, he was born as a god in Mahâ-śukra déva-loka-Seventeenth Previous Bhava as a brilliant god in Mahä-sukra déva-loka with an age-limit of seventeen (17) sāgaropam years. Appendix No. I, containing Some Note-worthy Points about the Sixteenth Previous Bhava of Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra.
CHAPTER II. Eighteenth previous Bhava of śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvîra-Tripristha Vāsudéva-Queen Bhadrā, the chief consort of ( King Ripu prati-Šatru of Potanapura ) gave girth to Acala Kumāra portended by four Great DreamsAfter a few years, birth of a daughter named Mrigävati to Queen Bhadrā-When Mrigāvatî attained youth and marriageable age, King Ripu prati-Šatru becoming greatly enamoured with her exquisite beauty and blooming charms, publicly and shamelessly, contracted marraige with his own daughter, disregarding violent protestations from Queen Bhadră, Acala Kūmāra, family-members, feudal princes, ministers, religious preceptors, and from a large majority of citizens, who were painfully grieved at such an un-natural and utterly disgraceful alliance, and, having made her his Chief Queen, he began to enjoy worldly pleasures with lier Queen Bhadrā-the girl's mother-becoming displeased by this heinous act, and greatly distressed by public censure, went away to her parents' house in the Deccan, and passed her days in mourning
The parents of Queen Bhadrā were very wealthy. A nice town namen Mâhé varï- complete with high city-walls, beautiful buildings, temples, dharmaśālās (inns for travellers ), cattlecamps, big market-places and gardens, inhabited by wealthy merchants-was built for her, and it soon became a very flourishing city in the South
By this heinous act on his part, King Ripu-prati-Satru, came to be, afterwards, called Prajā-pati ( literally, husband of one's own progeny ) by the people, on account of his having a dersire of sexual intercourse with his own daughter. The soul of
