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CONTRITS. rushed in and throatened his father to out of his head unless he would take food. But Simba romained firm to his purpose, and he declared, in many fine sentences, that it is foolish to be afraid of death. Thereupon Ananda wounded him with his sword and despatched him at last. Simha became a god in Sanatkumāra heaven, and Ananda a denizen of hell in Ratnaprabhā. 132, '6.
Third Bha vog.
(Śikhin and Jalini.) In the town Kosa of Aparavideha there reigned king Ajitasona. His minister was Indrašarman whose wife was Subhankark; they had a daughter, named Jalini, in whom the soul of Ananda had been incorporated. Jalint was married to Brahmadatta, son of the minister Buddhisāgara. 134, 2. ' In the womb of Jālint the soul of Simha was incorporated when he descended from heaven. In that night she had a dream : a golden pitcher entered her body and somehow broke as it issued from it. As her pregnancy progrossed she suffered in body and mind; she, accordingly, hated the unborn child and tried many means to procure abortion, but with no success. Her husband hearing of her doings, bade her servants inform him of all that happened. Now when Jálinl gave birth to & boy, her friend Bandhujivá persuaded her to expose him; she delivered him, however, to Brahmadatta who caused his son whom he named Sikhin, to be brought up secretly in some other place..' When Sikhth was of 'mature age, his father acknowledged him openly as his son. But Jalini, on hearing an account of her son whom she had thought dead, flew out into a passion; she told her husband to choose between her and him; sho would touch no food if he did not disown his son. When Sikhin game to know of this occurrence, he was greatly distressed and left the town witlaout taking leave oven of his father. 136, 12
Going to the park Asokavana, he there met the Acārya Vijayasimha, a man of beautiful person and still in the prime of lite. sikhin enquired of him what had induced him to give up all his advantages in order to become a monk.
