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Amargupta's Tale. In Campīvāsa, I was born formerly as a girl named Somã and was married to Rudradeva. Once I made an acquaintence of the chief nun Bālacandrã and by her religious instruction. I became averse to worldly pleasures. My husband did not like this and ordered me to renounce my creed. He did not succeed in this attempt. So he began to hate. me and courted Nãgas’ri. Her father did not consent to their match. (80. 6 ) My husband thought that I was in the way. So he madea trick to take my life. One night, he asked. me to fetch a garland from a sealed earthen pot in which he had hidden a deadly snake. I was bitten by a snake and immediately died. Rudradeva then married Nagas'lï and after his death, descended to hell Ratnaprabhã. I became a god in the Litãvatamsaka Vimāna in the Saudharma heaven. (81. 6.)
After a Palyopama, I was reborn as an elephant and my adversary, a parrot. Once a Vidyâdhara, kidnapping the daughter of another Vidyâdhara, hid himself in the grove in the forest and requested the parrot not to betray him to his pursuers. In the meantime, I was passing by with my females. The
