Book Title: Samraiccha Kaha
Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Gurjar Granth Ratna Karyalay

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________________ [ 52. 11. his contact, said " Your Majesty has spoken the words just befitting the disposition of a great man. This is the duty of the high-souled people in world of living beings which is as fickle as the disc of the moon in the midst of waters interspersed with lotuses, shaken by a terrible gale of wind; do not bring in an obstruction according to your pleasure. And to add: Your Majesty, having obtained the friendship of any man, would he (i. e. the same man) check him (i. e. the other)going out of the house, surrounded by burning flames ? Therefore, we have the full consent to the action of your majesty.We are unable with the scope of our talents to ward off your death." Then the king having heard that it was so, congratulated them with great respect saying " Who excepting yourselves can be my best well-wishers ?" He, then, made a proclamation and arranged to give great alms with his lotus-like face blooming. He arranged for an eight-day festival, in the temples of Jinas etc. just fitting the greatness of his devotion. He welcomed his dependents. He respected the citizens and countrymen. He gave a kingdom to his eldest son named Candrasena. He took to withdrawal mentally. “Tomorrow [52] I shall go from here to the place where there is Vijaysen:icīrya.' So thinking, he remained in a solitary place observing the monastic standard of the whole night. On this side, Hermit Agnis'arman, not at all retracting from his evil meditation, was born, after dying, a god among Vidyut-Kumaras, with the life of one and a half Palyopamas. The consciousness then came upon him. “Why did I give offerings, made sacrifices and gave alms that I got such celestial splendour of gods ?" He knew past life, he became angry with Gunasana. Beco

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