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gods to have a look at his glittering face. He asked them to look at him in the assembly-hall. His was a disfigured face because all beauty of his had vanished in a trice. He spat in a spittoon in which worms were wriggling. This was why Sanatkumara renounced the world.
(8) Anādritä-A well-aimed insult, too, may cause renunciation. When Nandisena was in the womb, his father expired and his mother could not survive in child-birth. The child was brought up by his maternal uncle. He was ugly and everybody derided him. The uncle promised to give his own daughter to him by way of marriage if others disappointed him. But when the promised daughter refused him he was to commit suicide, but luckily instructed by Nandivardhana Sūri, he became an initiated monk.
(9) Devasanjnapti-At times some god may take the initiative in getting one initiated. Menarya was low-born. His mother befriended a rich man's wife. She exchanged her son with the low-born one. When he was to be married, his friend Deva of the previous birth exhorted him to be initiated. On his refusal, he exposed his parentage. The marriage was abruptly stopped. When again asked for initiation, he agreed conditionally. The conditions were,,get me married to rich men's daughters and also to the daughter of king Srenika, I shall get myself initiated twelve years after enjoying myself as a householder. On the expiry of the stipulated period, Lord Mahavira initiated him.
(10) Vatsanubandhika-Sometimes a son also may be the cause of his relations' renunciation. Dhangiri's wife Sunanda was pregnant. Singhgiri's sermon caused Dhangiri to renounce the world. When the son was born, the family members wished his father had not been an anchorite. The child intuitively knew all about his previous life. He started weeping in order to be detached from his mother. When he was six years old,his father Dhangiri reached there for alms. Feeling irked by the child's continued weeping,she put the child in the pot of the monk. Finding it heavy as thunderbolt, he gave the name of 'Vajra' to the child. The mother tried to have the child back. The case was reported to the king. In the assembly the boy advanced towards the father and not the mother which induced her too to be initiated.
Other reasons also appear in the Sthänänga itself. They are:(1) Ihalokapratibaddha-To enjoy this very world without moving one's little finger.
(ii) Parlokapratibaddha-To improve the next life.
(iii) Ubhayatahpratibaddha-To ameliorate both,this world and hereafter. Three more kinds have been mentioned as follows:
(1) Puratahpratibaddha-with the fervent hope of having one's own disciples.
(2) Pristhtahaprtibaddha-with the desire that there will be no separation from close relations.
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