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danghter of king İkinasena and queen Vijaya. Tänasena sent his daughter as a Svayamvara bride to me. On our weddingday I went, with the bridal procession, towards her residence and on my way saw a monk collecting alms. This sight produood in me the recollection of my former births which made me faint. When I came to myself, I told my father that the knowledge of the misery of human life had caused the accident, and narrated him my former births ; in conclusion I asked his por. mission to enter the Order. He objected to it with regard to Vinayamati. On my suggestion the family priest was sent to her to know her opinion. When the latter began to relate to her the history of our former births, she suddenly remembered them, and not only approved of my decision, but also declared that she would take the vows herself. At last the king arrived at the same revolution, and accordingly we all together entered the Order. 285, 16.
(Main story continued.) Dhana was greatly moved by Yasodhara's tale and asked him his advice. The samt then described at some length the extreme difficulty of a Jiva to rise from the lowest stage of existence to human birth, and finally to reach mokra. Dhana anounced that he would take the vows after he had obtainod the permission of his parents. 287, 18. He told them all that had happened. 'Tlmugh they themselves were inclined to enter the Order, still the father tried to dissuale him from it. But Dhana refuted. all his arguments, and at last he and his parents were initiated by Yasodhara. 290, 15.
When Dhana had led the monastio life for sometimo, he took to wandering about single and this ho once arrived in Kausāmbi.
Nandaka and Dhanasri had, after Dhana's disappearance, continued their voyage together and had at last settled in Kaušámbi, where Nandaka adopted the name Samudradatta. Now Dhana happened to enter their house on his hegging tour, and soon left it. Dhanasri who had recognized him, sont & servant after him and learnt that he had put up in a park. She told Nandaka that she had vowed to stay the night in the temple of the Nagaradovati, and under this pretence she
