________________ King Mahipala will be suffering from a severe skin disease (leprosy/leucoderma). Because of it his body will have a bad smell, so that he will not live inside the city, but outside in a village. He will not know the difference between day and night and will have to suffer intolerable sufferings. Once, numerous vidyadharas and vidyadharis were returning to their respective homes after having come to Shatrunjaya in order to celebrate the festival of the eighth day of Caitra. Among them, a vidyadhari suggested to her husband that they both bathe in Suryakunda and worship Rsabha before going. The vidyadharas did so, filling ceremonial pitchers with water. Then they sat in their celestial carts and went. On the way they saw and heard the lamentations of Mahipala. The vidyadhari took pity on him and asked who he was. Her husband explained that he was king Mahipala and that this disease was the result of previous karma. But they had heard from a monk that there was one means to cure it: the contact with one drop of the water of Suryakunda, a tank located in the Suryavana of Shatrunjaya. Full of joy, the vidyadhari took some of this sacred water in her hands and sprinkled it on Mahipala. As the 18 varieties of the skin disease were disappearing, the vidyadhara said: "We had hatred with you for seven births. Now our power has stopped. Therefore we cannot stay here and we are leaving". Upon these words the disease became totally invisible and the king recovered full health. The next day was for celebrations. A monk came. The king offered him some food and asked about the cause of his former disease. The monk narrated his previous birth to the king: in his seventh birth he had killed some Jain monks. He had made efforts to wash up the sins, but some karma had remained, as a consequence of which he had to suffer as he did. The king remembered his previous birth, went to Shatrunjaya where he performed various rituals, fasting unto death, and was emancipated. > SatrMah. II.595-605; Kanchansagarsuri pp. 14-15; Gunaratna Surishwar p. 65 about Suraj Kund. To the Indra of Saudharma who asked about the power of the river Setrumji, Mahavira described its enormous powers: the qualified souls who bathe there will make their way out of the world of rebirths. The 17 restorations of Shatrunjaya. This traditional topic when it comes to Shatrunjaya is treated at length, for instance, in Dhanesvara's Satrunjayamahatmya (Kanchansagarsuri pp. 17-21), or, more briefly, in Jinaprabhasuri's Satrunjayakalpa (37ff., 69ff.). Here it is dealt with very briefly, only in the form of a list, as a kind of reminder and summary. The first twelve restorations were made by kings who were contemporary to one or the other Jina. Hence they have been mentioned in the relevant sections of the preceding development: Restoration No. 1; cf. Section 1 No. 2; cf. Section 1 No. 3; cf. Section 1 No. 4; cf. Section 1 No. 5; cf. Section 1 No. 6; cf. Section 1 No. 7; cf. Section 2 No. 8; cf. Section 4 No. 9; cf. Section 8 3) 4) पटदर्शन 139
