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[ 83. 18. said the matter to Lilārati. Lilarati, adorning the courtyard of the sky, flew away with Candrlekha. We saw him. I thought "What a result of falling from the Sarvakāmika Precipice-that this pair of parrots concentrating to be Vidyadharas, fell from here became at once the Vidyādhara pair ! Hence enough even for us to have animal-life. Then making the concentration to become a god, we also fall from here.” Thus thinking we did not see the pair of parrots that had flown away. [83] Then I with limbs and sub-limbs shattered away, experienced pain, lessened my actions suffering hunger etc. without a will to annihilate them, was born a Vyantara god with the age of a little less than a Palyopama in the city of the world of Vyantra gods named Kusums'ekhara. There I enjoyed munificient joys while the other dying as a parrot was born as a helldweller with the age of something less than a Palyopama in the hell called Lohitābhimukha, in the hellworld, Ratnaprabha. Then I, finishing my period of life fell and was born as a son in the womb of Sumangalā, the wife of merchant Apratihatacakra in the city of Cakravālapura in the other Vijaya here in the country of Videha. I was born at a proper time and my name was kept Cakradeva. I reached my childhood. In the meantime that hell-dweller parrot, coming back from the hell was born as a son in the womb of Nandivardhanii the wife of Somas’arman, who was the chaplain of the king in the same city. He was given the name Yajnadeva and he reached his childhood. In the meantime I conceived affection for him out of goodness; but he, out of treachery. Then, out of the taint of action attaching from the previous birth, he, crooked and spiteful of
