Kathakoca or Treasury of Stories

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

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asked : ‘Lady,* how is it that I have an affection for you? Then Madanávalí told him his three births, and said : 'Hence it is that you fell in love with me. Now, abandon passion, the cause of the ceaseless revolution of births and deaths. Strive to attain religion. When the Vidyadhara had heard about his former births from the keralin,t he resolved on self-renunciation, and took & Vow. Having performed penance, he went to blessedness. Madanávali also, having duly observed the way of life of a kevalin, # and having thus prevented future births, obtained salvation.
Here ends the story of Madanávalí, having reference to the offering of perfumes by way of worship. Moreover, whoever offers in front of the Jina an offering of food,
full of faith, That man obtains the blessed happiness of men and gods, like the
ploughman. He who, endowed with much faith, brings an offering to the moon
like feet of the mighty Jina, Enjoys the excellent enjoyments of gods, Asuras, men and snakes.
In this very land of Bharata there is a city named STORY OF THE PLOUGHMAN WHO BECAME A Kina. Kshemapuri; in
it there was a king named Súrasena. Now, long ago there was a city named Dhanyá belonging to the family of that king, and in the family of the same king there was a king named Simhadhvaja. Now, in the entrance to that eity a hermit practising a severe form of penance had established himself in the middle of the road in the statuesque posture. But the people entering the city thought him a nuisance, and saying, This man is of evil omen to us,' persecuted him. Therefore the god, who dwelt in the city, became enraged at this time with the citizens. In the meanwhile, as the hermit went on bearing patiently terrible persecution, unlimited knowledge arose in him, and at that * In the original tho masculine is used. + The masculine form is used. I Kevaliparyaya.
Š Nevajjam, this being a Prákřit gátha. In the Sanskrit passages that follow, the Sanskrit equivalent naivedya is used.