Kathakoca or Treasury of Stories

Author(s): C H Tawney
Publisher: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation New Delhi

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Queen, why was it that you fainted when you saw this kápálika ?! She answered :* 'I remembered my former life. In a former birth I was a Pulíndí, and he was my husband. One day a holy man arrived where we lived, and appointed a vow for the worship of the god. I took upon myself that vow, but my husband did not take it. I worshipped the Jina three times a day, in the forenoon, at noon, and in the afternoon; and owing to the merit of that piety I have now become your chief queen, while my husband is enduring this miserable condition. When they heard this, all worshipped the god. Here ends the story of Devapála having reference to the worship of the god. Now follows the subject of wrath.
Rain, cloud, for fifteen days on the city of Kuņálá,
With raindrops as large as clubs, as by day, so also by night. In the city of Kuņálá two hermits were remaining with reSTORY OF THE TWO HERMITS THAT BROUGHT
_strained breath in the DOWN A DELUGE ON THE CITY OF Kunálá. statuesque posture +
during the rainy season. The cloud was raining everywhere. Some herdsmen blamed the holy men, saying: These hermits will prevent the cloud from raining. The hermits flew into a passion, and the first said : 'Rain, cloud, on Kuņálá.' The second said : For full fifteen days.' The first said : "With rain. drops as large as clubs.' The second said : As by day, so. also by night.' Owing to this curse of the two hermits, the cloud rained for fifteen days, and the city was flooded. The hermits also perished and went to hell. Therefore wrath should not be indulged in.
On a lofty mountain a hermit named Samvara was in STORY OF THE HERMIT AND THE CARTER.
honen a statuesque posture.
* The goddess that ful. fils the command of the Jina was pleased with him, and said to him : 'Great-souled one, if calamity should come
* I have inserted some words which the sense seems to require.
+ See Dr. Hoernle's Uvásaga Dasáo,' appendix iii., p. 41. I have borrowed this term from him.