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[4. BRAVA.
Our souls were at once incorporated in the womb of Jaya. vali whom the king had just embraced. In due time we were born as twins ; I was named Abhayaruoi, and she Abhayamati. Once the king went hunting and saw in the park the monk Sudatta ; thinking that the sight of a monk foreboded ill look in hunting, he set his dogs upon him. The dogs, however, circumambulated the monk and prostrated themselves before him. The King was now ashamed of his rudeness especially when his companion Arhaddatta gave him an account of this monk Sudatta: he was the son of Amaradatta, king of Kalinga, who had resigned the throne and become a monk when he was called upon to confirm a sentence of mutilation and death of a criminal. 270,5. The king now paid homage to Sudatta; but his remorse was 80 keen that he contemplated putting an end to his life, as the only means of atoning for his guilt. But Sudatta who possessed the manah paryāya knowledge, i. e., reading of other men's thoughts. proved to him that all the thoughts that had just been passing through his mind were wrong, and that 'monk was a most auspicious sight. He further told Guņadhara how severely his father and grandmother had suffered, in many births, for their transgression; but he comforted him in his despair and asserted that all guilt might be counteracted by pious conduct. The king, thereupon, enquired if he deserved to become a śramana ; and being answered in the affirmative, he apprised the ministers of his resolve by a messenger, at the samo time appointing medis successor. 277, 2. This news becoming known in the seraglio, I and Abhayamati together with the king's wives went to see him. We found him sitting before Sudatta, and learnt from him all that the latter had related to him. Thus the recollection of our former births came upon us ; we fainted and when we recovered we declared that we too would enter the Order. The king than placed his sister son Vijayavarman on the throne,' and was initiated together with myself and Abhayamati. Nayanávali could not be saved troue perdition, as I had hoped. At the end of our lives we beonymie gods in the heaven Sahasrara, 279, 6.
I was reborn in Saketa as Yasodhara, son of king Vinayam. dhara and queen Lakemivati; Vinayamati, in Patalipatra as
