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Even a severe penance undergone, even a life in the wood long
endured, Is useless here to a man destitute of respect for his teacher, like
Kúlaválaka. For instance, here follows the story of Kúlaválaka : In this very land of Bharata there is a city named
Rájagriha. In it STORY OF KÚLAVÁLAKA, THE HERMIT, WHO
to ruled a king named PROVED UNFAITHFUL TO HIS Vows.
Çreņika.* His seven humours were purified by the seven categories + proceeding from the mouth of the Jina. He had a son named Abhaya, born from his wife Nandá, and a prince named Açokachandra, born from his wife Chillaná, and other sons, Halla, Vihalla, and so on, also sons of Chillaná, and by other queens many princes, Prince Kálaga and others. He had also other children. Çreņika was ruling his kingdom. One day the holy Mahávíra encamped there. The king went to worship him. After worshipping him, he sat down. At the end of the sermon Prince Abhaya asked the master:
Reverend sir, who will be the last royal sage after this ?' The holy man declared : 'In our* religion the last royal saint is King Udáyi ; after him the crowned kings will not take a vow.' Then Prince Abhaya, fearing that his taking a vow would be impeded, refused to accept the throne. Creņika said: 'You must not take a vow without saying good-bye to me. You must not depart unless I give you leave.' Prince Abhaya promised accordingly. Once on a time, when a great stress of cold had fallen on the country, the king went with Queen Chillaná to worship Mahávíra. When they were on their way back, after worshipping him, Queen Chillaná saw a great hermit standing in the statuesque posture, enduring the torture of cold. The queen said to herself: "How will this great hermit live through the night in this stress of cold without a blanket ?' With this thought in her mind, the queen went to sleep at
* Called also Bimbisára, Bhambhasara and Bibbhisára (Bühler, • Die Indische Secte der Jaina,' pp. 20 and 21).
+ I take dhátu as equivalent to tattva. See Cowell and Gough's Sarva Darcana Sangraha,' p. 53. I Tirthe.
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