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[8. BHAVA.
aint should be polluted, the deity carried Vişeņa away and leposited him in a grove. Thence he went forth and wandering ibout was killed by some Šabargs. He descended to the hell Camah.
Sena on his death ascended to the ninth Graiveyaka heaven. 599, 9.
EIGHTE BHAVA.
(Guņacandra and Vánamantara.) When Sena's life as a god terminated, his soul descended nto the womb of Padmāvati, wife of king Maitribala of Ayodhya. Che queen dreamt in that night that a beautiful lake was enter. ing her body. In due time she gave birth to a boy who was hamed, after his grandfather, Guņacandra. 602, 13. He was instructed in all kalās' and grow up a virtuous youth who was not addicted to sensual pleasures. 604, 2.
The soul of Visena, after having stayed the allotted time in nell and having thon gone through a great number of births, was at last embodied as the Vidyādbara Vánamantara in Rathanūpura-cakravālapura on mount Vaitādhya Once he went to Ayodhyā and saw the prince in the park amusing himself with painting. He felt at once so strong an aversion to Gunacandra that he would have killed him, if he had been able to come near him. He, therefore, rendered himself invisible and produced a most frightful noise which he imagined would kill him ; but the prince was not frightened in the least. Then the Vidyadhara throw a golden tree at the prince; it would have crushed him, jf it had not been averted by his morit. Now the guardian Vyantara of the place happened to come there ; As he was more powerful than the Vidyadhara, the latter went away. The prince returned to the town. 805, 10.
The Samkepa mentions the usual number, viz. Boventy two, but the coumeration in the original far exceeds that number.
The correct Sanskrit equivalent would be Vyentara, but the Sap. Ispopa retains the Prakrit form of the name, only changing into n.-The Vyantara are a class of lower deities to which the Vidyadharas do not Salong, Tattvarth. 8. IV 12.
Literally : Trespass upon the avagraha of the princo, na the space around him which is considered to belong to him of right.
