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now please go my child, to Sagaradatta's house." Then Sāgaraka said to Jinadatta thus:-"Father ! I am even prepared to undertake (or face death by either of these--) a fall from a mountain (precipice), or from a tree, or being deserted (or stranded) in a place where there is no water available, or a fall in water, or entering burning fire, or eating poison, or cutting myself into pieces with a weapon, or be hanged, or be devoured by vultures, or be an exile (for the rest of my life), or go to (and stay in a foreign country; but never shall.I go to Sāgaradatta's house (again)." Now Sagaradatta heard all this from behind the wall, and being ashamed, abashed, and put to shame, leaving Jinadatta's house, went home called his daughter Sukumārikā, and seating her on his lap said to her:-"Child ! why do you care for (or wory about) Sāgaraka ? I shall give you (in marri. age) to one to whom you would be desirable and an object of love; thus with various sweet...upto...coaxing words he consoled her, and gave her leave to go. Once that Sāgaradatta was seated comfortably on the terrace (of his mansion), looking down at the royal road. There he saw a beggar, dressed in tattered and patched garments, carrying broken earthen pots and potsherds in his hand, and being pursued by thousands of flies. Thereupon Sāgaradatta called his domestic servants, and said to them : “O B., you just feed this beggar with plenty of food etc., take him inside the house, [P.23] keep his broken earthen pots in a corner, get his hair properly dressed, and then after he has bathed... upto... offered his oblations etc., feed him with dainty (or delicious) food etc., and then bring him to me." Then those domestic servants...upto ... promised, went to that beggar, tempted that beggar with food etc., induced him to enter the house, and kept his broken earthen pot and vessel in a corner, Thereupon, when that broken earthen pot and vessel was being taken away to be kept in a corner, that beggar began to shriek hoarsely and loudly. Then Sāgaradatta, on hearing the loud shrieks of that beggar, called his domestic servants and said to them :“Why is it, O B. that this beggar is shouting so loudly and
hoarsely ?" Then those domestic servants replied to him :Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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