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Pouring of Molten Lead into the Ears of his bed-chamber
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Tripţiştha Vasudeva, at that time, had a recollection of the night in 'ident of the servant of his bed-chamber with the songsters, he accordingly called forth the servant and ordered his servants of the assembly:- "Ah! You pour red-hot molten liquid of lead ,nd copper into the ears of the servant of my bed-chamber, who, becoming very fond of the music of songsters, has rudely violated my orders His ears are blameworthy." On hearing this order of the Vasudéva, the servants took him into a corner, poured red-hot molten liquid of lead and copper into his ears. The servant of the bed-chamber died immediately with greai agony.
By doing this heincus act, Tripristha Vasudeva foolishly acquired for himself, the most formidable Vedniya Karma of suffering terrible miseries. The evil consequences of this atrocious deed, came to be experienced even during his twenty-seventh Bhava as Śramaņa Bhagavān Mabāvira, the last (twenty-fourth) Tirthankara of the present series of twenty-four Tirthankaras of the Jains in the form of very sharp-pointed pieces of hard wood thrust forcibly into his ears by the soul of the servant of the bed-chamber who was born as a cowherd during that Bhava when the Bhagavān was standing in Kāyotsarga outside षण्मानिग्राम Sapmanigram.
Vijayavati-the chief consort of Tripristha Vasudeva and the daughter of the king of facto Sinhala-dvīpa, Lankā, (Ceylon) becoming disrespected at various places and not receiving even an honourable mention from the Vasudéva, led a very miserable life, and on death, she was born as a brute during her next life
43. Tripriştha Vāsudéva also, having enjoyed various worldly pleasures, with an eager desire for I 'quiring different countries, disreg? ling other warriors by the prowess of his arms, and having entirely lost his Right Belief by engaging himself
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