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when the beggar experienced that terrible burning touch he also ran away like a crow released from a slaughter-house
Next morning Sāgaradatta consoled her with sweet words, and advised her that now she should become a laywoman and spend her time in observing religious duties. Afterwards she became a nun and joined a band of Gopālikā nuns. But she was haughty bv temperament and owing to her wayward behaviour she could not put up with them ; so she went away and stayed in a separate monastery.
One day while she was observing her austerities near a garden she saw a courtezan named Devadatta enjoying all sorts of human pleasures with five members of Lalitā Club. When she saw that, her passions and desires for human pleasures, which were latent till now, overpowerede her, apd she made the following sinful resolution—"If there is any potency in this penance of nine then let me also, in one of my future births, enjoy such human pleasures."
Afterwards she became very wayward, used to wash her body again and again, and began to rove as she liked. And ultimately at the time of her death she did not confess and atone for that sinful thought. So after her death she was born as a divine courtezan in one of the heavens. III. Draupadī: (The third birth).
Sukumārikā, after coming down from heaven, was conceived in the womb of Culaņi, wife of king Drupada, in the Pāncāla country, in the city named Kān:pilyapura. As she was the daughter of Drupada, the girl was named Draupadi, In course of time Draupadi passed her childhood and attained excellent form, and matchless youthful beauty. King Drupada granted her the liberty of choosing her own husband, and so he resolved to celebrate her Swayamvara.
Tben king Drupada sent messengers to Dwāravatī, Hastinapura and to many other places, inviting to the Swayamvara, Krşņa Vāsudeva, the five sons of king Pandu, and various other kings, princes and warriors. A huge and magnificent pandal was erected for the Swayamvara,
Then king Drupada welcomed and received all the kings and Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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