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WINY OQUITATS.
.FL. BRAVA. It so happened that, on the day when the king expeoted A's visit, a boy was born to him. By his order this happy event was celebrated by a general festival thronghout the town. 26, 10. At this juncture A. entered the palace, but sbeing all people occupied with merry-making and having no regard for him, he went away in wrath. . He imagined that G. had, out of sheer malice, prevented him thrice from breaking his fast, and this thought inflamed his hatred towards the king to such & degree that he uttered an awful resolve (nidāna): “If I have acquired merit by keeping my vow, may I then be born again and again to kill him in every one of his births." In such angry thoughts he returned to the hermitage, and pursuing his reflections he vowed to abstain from food altogether. 28, 7. His fellow Tapasas learnt from him what had happened, and told it to their superior who would not cancel A.'s neva vow. 30, 4.
Great was the king's consternation when he learnt that he had again missed keeping his promise to A. He, therefore, sent Somadeva, the purohita, to him to find out how he was disposed. S. met him, in the midst of the Tāpasas, seated on a layer of kusa grass and talking wildly about the king; he, therefore, left him and inquired of some other' Tāpasa what had happened. The information, the king thus got, induced him to walk to the hermitage together with his wites and his courtiers. 32, 13. A., however, declined to see the king; upon which the superior of the Tāpasas wont to meet the king on the road and persuaded him to return, for the present, to the town. 34, 6. On his way home G. met a'young Tāpasa, who told him the whole truth. He therefore, left Vasantapura and proceeded to Kşitipratisthita, where he arrived after a month, and took up his abode in the palace Servatobhadra. 36, 3.
About the same time the acārya, Vijayasena arrived there, and was lodged by the merchant Asokadatta in his. park Asokavana. 36, 3. G. while sitting in the audience hall inquired whether anything of interest had occurred, and tras informed by Kalyana of the arrival of Vijayagena, who, though a grandson of Samarasena, king of Gandhira, cand son of Lakamtoona, had become . Jaini monk. The king thon tisited the saint and muked him why he had exchanged the state of a pringo for that
