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GLIMPSES ALONG LIFE'S JOURNEY
The Pratendra from the sixteenth heaven, too, was born in the same land. He became Dhanadatta, the son of the great banker Kuberdatta, from his wife Anantamati. Bajranābhi later appointed him the lord chamberlain of his household. Thus did karma bring the old friends together once again!
Raja Bajra Sen retired, in the fullness of time. from the concerns of the world, and placed the crown on the head of Bajranābhi. Bajranābhi later became an emperor, when the chakra (discus) appeared in his arsenal. He then started for subduing the world, and returned successfully after many many years.
In the meanwhile his father had attained to Omniscience and the divine status of Tirthamkara hood, as the result of the fruition of highly meritorious karmas. Bajranābhi, who had been indifferent to the pleasures of life all along, and who had only married because of the desire of his royal father, now found himself more and more attracted away from the world. One day he placed his son, Bajradanta. on the throne, and along with his eight brothers, namely, the four favourites of his former life, Mativara, Akamapana, Ananda and Dhana Mitra, and the four re-incarnated animal souls, the Lion, the Pig, the Monkey and the Mongoose, adopted the life of austerity
