Book Title: Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1
Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication

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________________ 185 ching you a lesson.” I told them :-“ If It be so, you execute his orders." They lifted me up without causing slightest injury to my bodyand flying into the sky they went to a distant place, and plaeed me into a mountain-cave formidable with big enakes. I told them, "Ahi Why do you thus leave me alone here? Why do you not strike me ? They replied, -This much is the order of our master." With these words, they flew up again Into the sky. With all the directions becoming as dark as Cuckoo or the wild buffalo, with the forests appearing terrible by the unpleasant sound of deer lacerated cruelly by the young of lions, the roads becoming impassable by the mire springing out from small pools by the immersion of forest buffaloes into them, with the mass of bamboos burning by the fire resulting from the mutual rubbing together of branches of trees, with the rāk şasas possessing fearful and glittering red eyes resembling the flame of a burning lamp wandering here and there, and being unable to find out the right path or the wrong path in the forest region dug out low or high by the sharp teeth of hogs, and being unfamiliar with the locality, and also being unable to walk further on foot, I climbed up a spaclous branch of a large tree, and slept on it. But like a vicious woman, sleep was attained with great difficulty. During the last quarter of the night, leopards sat around me instead of the guardian-elephants, aged jackals began to cry aloud instead of auspicious melodious tunes of musical instruments at the time of waking up in early morning hours, and birds began to sing around instead of bards uttering.eulogy. With the rlee of the Sun-the illuminator of the three worlds, -I got up, and having done my morning religious rites, I came down froin the tree, and walked in one direction. After a moment, a bhilla (one belonging to a wild mountain tribe )-w tb his weist tied by the bark of a fresh sofi plant-with a bow and arrows in his haud - cllowed by his loving wife-with his neck decorated by a rosary of gunjā bea:ls-with the braid of his hair tied with cast-off skin of a cobra-and with his ears adorned with an esr-oj name:it made from freshly plucked peacock feathers, met me. I asked him o good man ! What is the 24 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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