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consequently loved Tosala intensely. The minister in charge of beheading Tosala allowed him to go scotfree provided he disappeared to an unknown destiny. Accordingly Tosala ran to Pāțaliputra, and started serving under king Jayavarman as a common man. Suvarnadevī, who was carrying, believed that Tosala was beheaded; and in sheer humiliation she ran away from the town and joined a caravan bound for Pāțaliputra. Due to physical disability, she lagged behind; and one night she delivered twins, a boy and a girl; though in despair, she wanted to live now for them. When she went out for a wash, the garment in
the two kids were folded and tied was picked up by a hungry tigress. The girl was dropped on the road, later picked up by a messenger of king Jayavarman, and was nourished, at Pāțaliputra, by his wife who named her Vanadattā. Sabarasimha, attached to Jayavarman, while out for hunting, picked up that boy who too grew in Pāțaliputra as Vyāghradatta, alias (vi) Mohadatta. In due course, Suvarnadevī also reached Pāțaliputra and happened to serve as a nurse to Vanadattā, not in any way recognising her.
During spring, Mohadatta and Vanadattā saw each other at a festivity, and felt passionately attracted mutually; the separation was unbearable to Vanadattā. Later, Tosala saw Vanadattā (escorted by Suvarnadevī who did not recognise him nor did he mark her), was full of passion for her, and rushed for her hand at the point of sword. There was a great commotion in the garden. Mohadatta came on the scene, and in a duel finished Tosala on the spot. As he started love sports with Vanadaitā, a voice announced that it was unworthy of him to enjoy his sister, in the presence of his mother, and that too after killing his father. It was the voice of a monk in the vicinity who explained all the relations. Mohadatta felt remorse for his ignorance and wanted to expiate for his sin. He came later to Dharmanandana, and, with his moha sufficiently quieted, accepted dīkşā (S$ 141-54). After an equanimous death, he was born as god Padmakesara in the Saudharmakalpa (p. 96.8-9). At that time, he dissuaded Sāgaradatta from entering flames (p. 109). Later he conferred with saint Sāgaradatta (p. 110), possessed the horse of Kuvalayacandra, and thus brought about the meeting of the three (i.e., the Lion, Kuvalayacandra and himself). Thence he was born as prince (iii) Pșthvīsāra, the son of Kuvalayacandra and Kuvalayamālā. Right from the beginning he had no attachment for the world, and he took the reins of the government much against his will ($ 330). Later, he put his son Manorathāditya on the throne, practised asceticism, and joined his colleagues as a (iv) god in the Saudharma-kalpa ($ 335). Thence he was reborn as prince (v) Kāmagajendra at Aruņābha. He was highly passionate. His loving wife was Priyangumatī. Once he fell in love with a lovely girl from a merchant's family; his wife secured her for him in marriage, and took a promise from him that he would share all his experiences with her. Later, he wanted to marry a princess from Avanti. While he was going thither, he was carried away by a couple of Vidyādhara maidens saying that princess Bindumatī, who had heard about him, was pining for him in separation. When he reached there she was dead; the two maidens burnt her body; and they also entered the flames. He too wanted to follow them, but changed his mind, hearing the conversation of a Vidyādhara couple. As he entered a lake for funeral offerings,
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