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CONTANTS. embarrasped ; as He did not believe me guilty of the orimo, be only banished me; his men oonducted me out of the town and released me near a ghove sacred to the goddess of the town. 93, 16.
Unable to bear my disgrace I resolved to hang myself on a banyan tree. But the goddess of the town had compassion for mo; she revealed the whole truth to the king through the mouth of his mother. The king thereupon ordered Yajnadatta to be taken prisoner, and hastened towards the grove where he arrived just in time to prevent me from hanging myself. Ho explained how he had come to know the truth and implored my forgiveness for the wrong he had done me. 95, 12. At that functure Yajnadeva was brought before the king, who ordered his tongue to be cut off and his eyes to be put out. I pleaded in his favour and prevailed at last on the king to reloase him. The recollection of the perfidy of one whom I had considered as a true friend brought home to me the vanity of all worldly things. 96, 11. Once I listened to the gañadhara Agnibhūti's preaching of the Law and was so moved thereby, that I became a monk. 07, 8. On my decease I became a Vaimhnika god in Brahmaloka, the other, on his death, became a denizen of hell in Saskaraprabhā, then a hound, then again a denizen of the same hell, and afterwards she went through a long series of animal births. After nine oceans of years I was born in Ratnapura of Gandhilâvati. in Aparavideha as Candrasāra, son of the merchant Ratnesagara and Srimatı; the other as Anahaka, son of Narmadā, a slave girl in my father's house. I married Candrakanta. My relation to Anahaka and his dis
1 Cakradeva's stay in Brahmaloka is 9 sägaropama's; the longest stay in Sankaraprabha is 3 såg., hence the necessity of accounting for the remaining 6 säg. at the end of which Yajnadatta and Cakradove are again brought together in human birth. Haribhadra's account is always in koep. ing with the rules of the Tattvarthadhigamalli 1, 6. IV 30 ff. There are nomo more instances of this kind. In the sequel I omit to mention, as void of interest, the length of stay in heaven or hell; the curious are retor. rod to the original for these details.
AU M88 oxoopt D road andhalvas. The Sarpkpapa has Gandhi. Hvatr, the Lokaprake Gandhilavati, se W. Kirfel, die Kommographia dis Inder,p. 242.
