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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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The Last Five Upingas [ I. Lect. 2.
Second Lecture. The Story of Sukila.
66. Jambû asked Suhamma: “If, O Reverend Sir, the Ascetic Lord Mahavira (and so forth, down to) who has obtained emancipation, has expounded this as the purport of the first lecture of the first section af the last five Upãngas together called Nirayã valião what then, O Reverend Sir, has been expounded as the purport of the second lecture of the first section of the last five Upingas together called Nirayávaligão ?”
Subamma answered: “O Jambî, it is as follows :"
At that time and at that period there was a city named Champa, a temple named Punnabhadda, a king named Kûniya, who had a queen named Paumã vai. In that city of Champã there was a queen nained Sukãli, the wife of king Seņiya and the junior stepmother of king Kuniya, who was very delicate. That queen Sukālî had a son named Sukála who was also tender. Now that prince Sukála, once upon a time, with three thousand elephants ( everything else is to be reproduced here exactly as in the case of prince Kāla without any omission down to Sukāla
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