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luck to your royal house. Some great Soul should come to you this day.”
Only a few hours after this the WORLD TEACHER entered Hastināpur, and proceeded towards the royal palace. Sreyānsa saw Hiri coming from a distance, and ran out to do obeisance to Him, accompanied by his brother and others. The sight of the Lord agitated him greatly ; there was a rush of some powerful emotion ; an internal commotion possessed him for the moment. The next instant Sreyānsa knew himself. He recalled how Bajrajangha had given the gift of food to two holy saints in a forest one day, and how he was there, by the side of Bajrajangha ! It was an old affair ; several times since he had re-incarnated in different forms ; still the memory came back with a rush, vivid and clear-at first Svayam Prabhā, then Srimati, and now Sreyānsa ! All these were but three phases, or complexions, of one and the same soul! Who said that the lot of woman in Jainism was hopeless ? Sreyānsa knew it to be otherwise !
Full of affectionate devotion, Sreyānsa now proceeded to offer the refreshing juice of the sugarcane to the WORLD TEACHER, in the approved way, which he now recollected fully. There are many kinds of gifts which people make to one another ; but of all of them the gift of food to a
