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away to their respective homes ultering roaring cries and saying “Ah ! Acchandaka is very wicked."
Being disrespcted by the village-people, and full of unplearantness like a murderer of a Brāhmin, and being unable to obtain even a dry piece of bread as alms, Accbandaka, one day, went to the compassionate Seamana Bhagavān Mahăvira, and raising his folded hands in front of his forehead, sald "O! Venerable Saint! You forsake this locality. You are a highly exbaulted super--human being. You will be worshipped and adored wherevere you go but I will not have any respect like artificial gold, even if I were to go elsewhere. Because, the strength of a jackal can only be seen in his own den. Besides, O Venerable Sir ļ the disrespect which I insolently showed towards you before, torments me like the stroke of a blow of the greatly enraged God of Death.
Acchandaka was not at all desirous of the presence of Śromana Bhagavān Mabāvīra in that village, and Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīrs was particularly anxious to avoid injuring the feeling of any one; consequently he started from Morāk Sanni véşa and went in the direction of Uttara-vācāla.
On his way to Uttra-vācāla-after crossing the boundary of Daksina-vācāla (Southern Vācāla ), but before reaching Uttara-Vācāla (North Vācāla ), while walking along the banks of the great river Suvarnakūlā, the remaining half of the divine cloth which was on the left shoulder of śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra, sbaking violently by a gust of wind, got entangled in thorns and fell down on the ground Bhagavān bending bis neck a little behind, saw whether the piece of divine cloth fell on a clean piece of ground or not, and went along his own way
Soma Irābmaņa, who had gone to śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira with the object of getting the remaining piece of the divine cloth was unable to ask for the cloth out of shame but he followed śramana Bhagavān Mahāvīra for one year, wherever he went. Having taken the
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