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107 Of us thinking in this manner, within some days, the provision was exhausted; and the hope for life died. away. I had anxiety, “Having taken up the tenets of Jinas, how will I die, without taking up friarhood with the real goal unachieved ? " In the meantime her left eye throbbed and also mine right and she said “ Dear lord, my left eye throbs.” Then I told her my heart's wish and the throbbing of the other eye [95] and consoled her. “My fair one, on account of these special forebodings, our misery, surely is not long to last; hence you should not trouble yourself.” She acquiesced. Thus as we stayed there for a day and night, there came the caravan, on its way to Ratnapura of the merchant by the name of Nandi-vardhana, the inhabitant of Ratnapura coming from the capital of S'abaras. People came there for water. We were perceived by them holding the ropes. They informed about this to the merchant. By the method of putting in a cot, we were taken out and recognised by him. We were asked the account and it was narrated in details. Then, as we started to Ratnapura and as the caravan finished five marches, Anahaka, - in the mere remnants of a skeleton, with the part of the property fallen on the left side and thus led to this long sleep by the lion-was seen on a region not very far from the trunk road. By the acquisition of the property, he was recognised by us. Then having seen him, come to a such a result, my Caritra-mohaniya action, came to annihilation and suppression. And the consequence of right conduct, difficult to be had in the whole world of living beings, came upon me. Then, I with my spiritual result waxing in this manner came to. my town. And I took up friarhood with proper cere
