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of all merits, and born on the Caturdas'ī day! Fie upon you, you who are sinful, wretched and as bitter as the Nimba-fruit, who killed that illustrious monk by that pumpkin preparation on the day of his breaking the monthly-fast"! Thus they abused her with various abusive expressions, admonished her in severe terms, severely ex. postulated her, railed her with bantering words, threatened her, beat her, and then drove her out of the house. Then that Nāgas'rī, being driven out of her house, was mocked, ridiculed, censured, blamed, beaten, hurt, despised, and spat at by all men on the three.cornered places, on the threeroads, squares, circles, spots with four approaches, and on the high-roads; and not getting (or being denied) shelter or refuge every where, [P.18] wearing a tattered garment sown together, carrying potsherds in her hands as her pots, with her head gone extremely bald, and being pursued by swarms of flees, she earned her living by begging from door to door, saying:—"Pray give me something (to eat)!" Then that Brāhmaṇi Nāgas'rī was attacked with sixteen diseases in that very birth, viz. cough, cold, uterine disease ... upto ... leprosy. Then that Brāhmaṇī Nāgas'rī suffering from all those sixteen diseases, and distressed, pained, and helpless, died at the time of death, and was born among the denizens of hell as a hellish being; in the Sixth Earth, with twenty-two Sagaropamas as her maximum duration of life. Coming out of that (hell), she was later on reborn among fishes. There; being killed by a weapon and dying a torturous death at the time of death, she was (again) reborn as a hollish being among the denizens of hell in the Seventh Earth with the life of maximum Sāgaropanias. Coming out of that (hell), she was born among the fish for the second time. There also, dying a painful death by means of a weapon, she was reborn among the hellisb beings, hor duration of life being the maxium number of Sāgaropamaş. From there, - verily, she ... upto ... was reborn among the fish for the third time. There also, being killed by a weapon, ... upto ... dying at the moment of death, again (she was :-reborn) in the Sixth Earth with
the maximum (period of life. Then after that, coming Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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