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[6. BHAVA.
(= parişaha) will continually assail you, but they must be disregarded. Food and drink must be scarce and tasteless. You must walk on continually even during two watches of the night (= svādhyāya). If all this has been strictly observed, you will get on the direct road and finally reach the town.
After this discourse Prince Jaya adopted the Jaina faith. His father had him anointed yuvarāja. 395, 10.
Meanwhile Dhanasrt was reborn as princo Jaya's younger brother Vijaya who disliked Jaya. 395,17. After the king's decoase Jaya ascended the throne, upon which Vijaya fled; but he was taken prisoner by the councillors. The queen-mother came to see Jaya who was seated in the audience hall and went to meet her. She implored him to spare his brother's life ; he had been imprisonod with her consent, for according to the policy of kings their adversaries must be kept in custody. Jaya returned with his mother to the audience hall, sent for Vijaya, and anointed him king. Thereupon his mother declared that she was now * apprehensive about his safety as before she had feared for
Vijaya's life. For his brother would now regard him as his enemy and seek his life according to the established policy of kings. Jaya then resolved to become a monk and prevailed on his mother to grant him her permission ; "she too decided to enter the Order together with him. 400, 10. .
At that time Sanatkumāra arrived. The day of Jaya's initiation having been fixed and the festivities usual on such an emergency having been celebrated, Jaya and his mother left the town and took the vows under Sanatkumāra. The latter de. parted after a month together with his disciples. 401, 14.
Vijaya regretted that his brother had escaped him alive, and sent assassins in quest of him. However they had compassion on him and returned, pretending to have killed him. Some time afterwards Jaya with a few monks went to Kākandi in the hope of converting one or the other of his relations. On hearing of his arrival Vijaya fell into a passion and called the assassins to account for not having carried out his order. They averred that they had been at Jaya's place, but as they could not recognise him in his altered appearance, they had enquired where he was, and going there as directed had killed a monk, apparently
