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young men began to sing, he scolded them for singing out of time. They rushed upon him in a rage, but Aparajita who was a consummate wrestler, gave them such a thrashing, that all their limbs were dislocated.' Then unlocking the door he went away. On hearing a report how the young men had fared at the hands of the monk, the king, in dismay, looked him up and implored him to pardon the evildoers, and to set their limbs. Aparājita consented on condition that they should enter the Order. Thus both of them were initiated; but the son of the Purohita, hated Aparājita for having caused him to become a monk. 'On his death, he became a god in the heaven Isanakalpa. 473, 6.
When this god remarked the symptoms of the imminent termination of his life as a god, he ropaired to Pūrvavideha and consulted the Tirthakara Padmanabhn as to where he should be reborn, and whether he would readily be enlightened or not. Padmanabha replied that he would be reborn in Kausambi, and that, because he had, in his last birth, hated his guru, his enlightenment should be effocted tardily through his brother Asokadatta, alias Mūka (the Muto), who had boen given the sccond name for the following reason. 975, 5.
Nagadatta, son of the merchant Tapasa of Kau jamlil, was married to Bandhumat!. Tápase, on his death, was reborn as a pig in his own hodse.. When Nagmulatta once celebrated a festival in honour of his deceased father, the moat prepared for the feast was snatchedeaway by a cat ; upon which the cook, in want of other meat, killed the pig. It was reborn, in the same house, as a snake which once, on sceing the cook recollocted its former birth without growing angry; the cook crying for help, the servants killed the anake, which then was reborn as Asokadatta, son of Nāgadatta by Bandhumatı When he was one year old, he recollected his former births. Being aware that his daughter-in-law was now his mother, and his son had become his father, he did not know how to address them. He, therefore, feigned to be mute, whence he got the name Müka. But when he was twelve years of age, a monk of superhuman knowledge,
Caturinänin, i.e. one who possesses the four first kinds of know. lodge, but not Kroala, the last one.
