Lilavati Sara

Author(s): Jinratnasuri, H C Bhayani, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Introduction
primce and the queen under arrest. But Ramadeva came to know of this through a doorkeeper, and out of rage he killed both the minister and the king as also the queen, when she scolded him for these dastardly acts. He usurped the throne for himself. His co-parceners and feudatories made an alliance and attacked him. In the battle that followed, his forces were routed and he had to flee. Having roamed in various countries he had at last arrived there (i. e. in Sudharman's relious assembly).
Sudharman identified Rāmadeva for the audience. Rāmadeva swooned due to coused memories of past births. He coroborated the facts of the preceptor's narrative, bowed down to him and requested him for initiation in the Jain Order. The request was accepted. Vijayasepa treated Rāmadeva as his honoured guest till the day of his initiation.
Canto 3
The Nature of Pride and Falsehood
Next day in reply to the request of the king, Sudbarman pointed out the consequences of pride and falsehood. A conceited person disregards, insults,mocks at, gets jealous of, and runs down others. Consequently he suffers much here and in bell. Reborn in lowly families he suffers, commits many crimes, and deprived of everything, he wanders here and there like Sulakşaņa piesent there in the assembly. The preceptor pointed him out and narrated the following account (1-20).
The Story of Vasundhara (21-117)
In Vasantapura, ruled by king Siddhartha and queen Kamalāva'i, there was a merchant named Sāgaradatta, to whose wife Śri, a son was born. The astrologer predicted that the son would cause the downfall of the family when he became five years old, and there was no remedy to prevent that calamity. At this Sāgaradatta narrated a story illustrating how intellegence can connteract ill-luck. (The Sub-story of Buddhisāgara and the Astrologer's Prediction) (33-64)
An astrologer once predicted, in the presence of king Jitaśatru that a fatal calamity would overtake the family of his trusted minister Buddhisāgara within a fortnight. The king could not believe this and asked the astrolo. ger to leave forthwith. The minister gathered secretly from the astrologer that the cause of the doom would be his son, Subuddhi. The minister there. upon shut his cooperative sor. in a wooden box with provisions of food and drink, fastened it with iron straps and cigát locks and took the box 1-2