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offended Kșşņa. Then as directed by Kęşga they went to the southern sea-coast, where they founded the city Paņdumathurā, and became rich and prosperous.
Afterwards queen Draupadi gave birth to a son, who was named as Papdusena. He attained youth, mastered the seventy-two arts, and was crowned heir-apparent. Having heard the religious preacbing from the Venerable Elders, the five Pandavas installed Pandusena on the throne, and entered the order along with queen Draupadi,
In those days, the venerable Aristanemi came to the country of Saurāştra and stayed there mortifying himself with self-control and fasts. Then those five monks, with Yudhisthira as their chief being pernitted by the Elders, started to pay their respects to the adorable Ariştanemi. When they reached the city Hastakalpa they heard the nows that Ariştanomi had breathed his last on the Girnār mountain, after a month's fast. Then those five monks climbed the S'atruñjaya mountain, emaciated themselves with a fast of two months, obtained the infinite and excellent Absolute Knowledge, and finally attained Salvation.
Then the nun Draupadī, the disciple of Suvratā nuns, mortified herself with a fast of one month, and having confessed and expiated her faults, was reborn in the heaven Brahmaloka after her death.
The present story is not supplied with a moral. The Commentator, therefore, remarks :--
TRITT 59771 h tà, gå gia 2967:,
"सुबहु पि तवकिलेसो नियाणदोसेण दूसिओ संतो।
न सिवाय दोवईए जह किल सुकुमालियाजम्मे ॥१॥ अथवा :- अमणुन्नमभत्तीए पत्ते दाणं भवे अणत्थाय ।
जह कडुयतुंबदाणं नागसिरिममि दोवईए ॥२॥ त्ति ।। सुबहुरपि तपःक्लेशों निदानदोषेण दूषितः सन् । न शिवाय द्रौपद्या यथा मुकुमारिकाजन्मनि ॥१॥ अमनोज्ञमभक्त्या पात्रे दानं भवेदनाय ।
यथा कटुतुम्बदानं नागश्रीभवे द्रौपद्या अपि ॥२॥ According to him, therefore, the moral of the story is as follows:
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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