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Story of the misogynist Sāgaradatta 169 fault of a single woman must not be visited on her race: is the full-moon night to be shunned because of the dark night before the new-moon?' Then Sāgara, attracted by her insight and cleverness, married her, and enjoyed happiness with her (13).
Sāgara started on an expedition, but seven times his ship was wrecked. On reaching home he became despondent, until he saw some one draw from a well seven times, but get no water until the eighth. He again started for Ceylon, was driven by a storm upon a treasure island, and gathered a mass of treasure. On the way home, he was thrown overboard one night by his ship's crew. He floated ashore on a plank 3 to the city of Pāțalāpatha, where he was seen by his father-in-law, who was traveling on business. On arriving home he recovered, by the aid of the king, his wealth from the mutinous crew, who had also returned (23).
As part of his generous benefactions he decided to fashion a divine image of precious jewels, and asked the dharmatirthikas + what divinity would procure salvation (mukti). A certain Apta or Proficient told him to invest with divinity a precious jewel." When he had gone thru the act eight times 6 he was to think of a certain goddess, who would tell him what he wished to know. He did this, whereupon a certain divinity placed before him a golden image of the Arhat. Returning to the Sādhus who had advised him, he showed them the image, and asked them who this god was, and how he was to be placed. They told him to consult Pārçvanātha in Pundradeça. Pārgva
See note on p. 49. *Some sort of Jain Sages.
* sadratnam adhivăsya; see Edgerton, JAOS. xxxiii. 164, and additional note 20, on p. 199.
• This in allusion to his own seven failures, and success the eighth time.
