Lilavati Sara

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

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died the very next day after the marriage. The wailing girl was somehow consoled by the parents who advised her to lead a chaste and austere life. Being vain of her chastity she insulted the wives of her brothers. As she entered youth, she was overpowered with sexual passion and indulged in unnatural means to satisfy it.
Once, some Jaina nuos arrived in the village. Due to the latent tendencies of kar past birth, vanity and untruthfulness manitested in Yasomali. She reviled the nuns as being unchaste. Once Yaśomati went to the village pond to bathe. The village headman's son had shortly before washed himself at that spot after making love to a slave-girl. Yasomati, while bathing happened to swallow some of that water, and she conceived She tried abortion ucsucces, fully. Her snelling telly revealed ter condition, subjecting her to the sense of shame, and to the taunts and ensure of the relatives. At last she ran away to a wild forest, wept profusely, atoned for the sin of casting aspersions on Jaina nuns, prayed to the gods to forgive her and tried to hang herself from a tree-branch, She was saved by a nun, who took her to 6 TULOy, locked aftester till ste delivered a dead child and died.
The Story of Sulakşaņa (183-278)
The soul of Yasomati was reborn as a son named Sulaksana to king Yaśahketu and queen Dhāriņi. By the time he was put in charge of the teacher, his innate vices of vanity and untruth began to manliest, and he mocked at the teacher and his wife, harassed their son, and did not learn archery and other arts. When the king asked the prince about his progress, he blamed the teacher as an ignoramus incapable of teaching anything. When the teacher told the king about the prince's insolence and vasity, the prince lost his temper and murderd his teacher there and then. Since he would not allow the corpse to be burnt, it was thrown out of the city. He then became a home of all the vices and became qoite uncontrollable. He estranged ministers and coparceners by frequently insulting them. Thereupon the king planned to appoint the younger son Vatsarāja as heirapparent. Io the archery contest beld at the Svayamvara of the princess of Mathurā, Sulaksana tried to pierce the target, but instead killed a maid of the princess, and became a laughing stock of all. Then Vatsarāja hierced the target successfully and won the princess. Epraged at this, Sulaksana killed Vatsarāja, the princess, and also his parents, who tried to interfere He then usurped the throne, but was overpowered by the feudal chiefs and royal cousins and was compelled to fee. This was how Sulakṣaṇa had arrived in the city and was present in the assembly.