Lilavati Sara

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

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Lilavati-sāra
Jinaraksita. On their way back home they arrived at the shop of Jinarakșita. His son was to look after the shop till they returned, but Devadinnas volunteered for the same and pressed the othe two to go for their meals. The son was distrustful, but they left. Thereupon Devadiona collected the cash and other valuables from the shop and decamped. The suspicious son returned hurriedly to find his shop plundered. The matter was reported to the king. The rogue was arrested, Jinar akşita tried to plead for mercy on behalf of Devadinna, but the feudal lord Vigraharaja attested to one more mischief of the hypocrite. Thereupon Devadinna was excecuted on the king's order.
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The Story of Vasudeva (371-410)
The soul of Devadinna was reborn as a son to a merchant named Devada. When he grew up to be a young man his parents died. Stricken with poverty, he took to theft and deceit. He struck a false friendship with Varadatta, the son of a leading merchant. Once Vasudeva, with his wife as an accomplice, laid a plot for blackmailing Varadatta. Accordingly when the latter came to his house, Vasudeva's wife called him inside and embraced him. At that moment Vasudeva appeared and charged his friend with misbehaving with his wife. Varadatta could rid himself from the troblesome situation only by a promise to pay to Vasudeva a handsome amount from time to time. Fedup with this, he informed the king and requested him to devise some way to free him from Varadatta's clutches. The king laid a trap. Vasudeva stealthily picked up the royal seal dropped unwittingly by the king's man as perviously planned.
In a systematic search of the citizens, the seal was recovered from Vasudeva's shop. He was arrested and exited.
At this juncture. the preceptor identified again for the audience. Vasudeva, who was sitting in the assembly. Reminded of his past births, Vasudeva repented for his sins and was duly initiated into the order.
Canto V
The Consequences Of Addiction To Delusion And Non-Chastity
After a break, the assembly met again in the afterncen, and the king requested the preceptor to continue his narrative further, and preach them about the fourth Asrava (1-16).
The preceptor started with the statement that delusion and sensuality went hand in hand. The cupid scores a victory even on Hari, Hara, Brahman Candra, Indra and others. He uses women's coquetish gestures as his weapons. A person under the control of sexual passion runs after all sorts