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fruits(?). By the livine virtue of the Jina Vasupījya, the lustful persons were not overpowered by love. There ruled king Dhālivāhana who shattercil his enemics anrl was an elephant to the tree of arrogance, who was en lowed with fine arts anal virtues and was clerotell to his superior's.
5. He bore the yoke of the great car of virtue and was a shelter to the helpless, the poor an: the miserable. By his fame the surface of the carth was whiteneil; by his largess all people were pleasel. Gols sing his virtues and the enemics walk about terror-stricken. The goddess of speech a lorns his lotus-like mouth, the go liless of wealth resicles in his spacious busom. His hand stretches forth to give wealth", but never wields the allow for the lestruction of the living. Being struck with his commands the leer become maimed and do not roam about on earth. He was full-faced to the good: terrible, with kuitteil eyebrows, to the wickel. His mind was lyel in the colour of virtue anul was never, for a moment, lippel in sin. His heart was deep like ocean, stearly like Jerue anil wile like the sky. To him his attendants were loyal being pleased by his virtues. He became an ornament of the world.
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6. One day Dudīvīkuna made an excursion to Kusumapura. There the king sair a beautiful girl bronght up by a gardener. Seeing her so attrac. tive, the gool king became stricken with love thich aroused his passion. Being afflicted by the heat of the fire of separation, the king inquired of a certain man " Tell me, oh frienil, whose daughter she is, a veritable fruited branch of the tree of Cupid". The man then told the facts to the king that the beautiful person was the daughter of the gardener. The gardener kusumadatta was then summoned and the stoutly built man was asked hesitatingly " Is she your daughter or of somebody else; kindly tell me.” He told the king, the moon on earth “ My wife Kusumadaitā found her in a bos in the very deep current of the Ganges.”
7. The very moment, the gardener, bearing the responsibility of virtue, took the box and speedily showed it to the king (saying ) " Ol lord, served by men, she was placed in this. It is not kuown, sir, whose daughter the girl was". The king, who had reached the ocean of knowledge, examined it and found in it a golden finger-ring imprinted. Then he read
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* There is a pon on the ord dhanu 'ineaning wealth or bow,
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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