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while he relapsed into his old ways, and he grew very ill again. The doctor was sent fort and all that had been done before was again gone through. And the same happened a third time. But after a renewed relapse thë god made him suffer most exoruciating pains and cured him only on condition that he would follow and obey him throughout. 486, 2. Accordingly they wandered about together. Once the god produced, by magic, & village on fire and ran to extinguish it hy loads of dry grass. When Arbaddatta uttered his surprise at his method of ex. tinguishing fire, the god roplied that it was no more foolish than toʻtender to secular life by feeding the body. Then the god left the road and entered a narrow path over-grown with briers ; equally foolish, he said, are those who leaving the road to emancipation re-enter the Samsāra.-They came to a shrine where the people worshipped the image of a demon, which would always tumble down whenever they had put it upright. Like the behaviour of this demon is that of a man who having attained to a higher form of existence, will, by committing sins, descend to hell or be born as animal. -They then saw a pig. which abandoned its trough in order to feed on filth ; similar to this pig, the god explained, is a man who leaves the pure life of & monk for sensual pleasures. The god pointed out to Arhad. datta a bull, who, instead of foeding in a pasture-ground near by, browsed the duwā-grays that grew out of the wall of an old well, and falling into it broke his limbs. 'You are like this bull' he said, you might go to heaven, but by reason of your desire for worldly enjoyment you run to perdition. ---Arhad. datta being awakened at last, asked his mentor who he was. The god replied that he had been, in his last birth, Asokadatta, in proof of which he led him to mpunt Vaitādhya and showed him the earrings he had once hidden there in his presence. Arhaddatta then recollected his former births and entered the Order. 489,6.
Dharaṇa asked his parents' permission to bocomo a monk and was initiated together with them by Arhaddatta. Aftor some time he was allowed to wander about by himself; onco ho oame to Timraliptı. 490, 6.-Suvadana, who had joined Lakşm! after her expulsion from Devapura, had returned with her to
