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xxiv Next morning, G. approached V. whom he requested to tell the story of the reason why he took to asetic-life. He narrated his lifehistory as follows:-(35. 17.)
Vijayasena's Tale
“I lived in Gandhārapura, in the country of Gandhāra. I had a friend named Vibhãyasu who died suddenly. In the meanwhile four Jaina saints arrived and stayed there in a cave where I saw them. They instructed me and I got thereby apta. Last night before their departure, I saw miraculous signs-which usually occur when a monk attains anget, -while I approached them. Gods and men put them questions. I too put them a question about my dead friend विभावसु. The केवली said that my friend was reborn as a dog at the house of a washerman named Ch. He was famished, chained close to the washing-basin, and was always afraid of the washerman's donkey. I sent men to fetch the dog. The present condition of my friend, said the kevalin, was due to his caste-pride in the last birth. It so happened that once on Madana's festival when the music-parties of the citizens were
