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little taint of malice towards his teacher. He neither censured the teacher nor confessed his malice before him. In due course he died and was born in Is'ana-heaven, where he enjoyed celestial pleasures. (P. 63. I. 10.)
One day the god felt, on account of the signs that appeared, that his life in heaven was then ending. He at last decided to consult Tirthankara Padmanabha as to where he should be reborn and whether he would be readily enlightened or not. Padmanabha said that he would be tardily enlightened through his brother As'okadatta, called by the other name Muka on account of the following reason. (P. 65. I. 7.)
Nagadatta, the son of merchant Tapasa of Kaus'ambi, was married to Bandhumati. His father Tapasa after his death was born in his house as a pig and was killed by a woman-cook on the day of festival. He then again was born there as a serpent, and the servants, who came there on the alarm being raised by the woman-cook, killed the serpent. He was then born as a son to his son and was named As'okadatta. He somehow had the knowledge of this previous lives.
