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His qumerous servaats-artizane-lived in extensive apartments and they were weaving cloth of different kinds Śramana Bhaga. vān Mahavira asked permission from Arjuna with the object of living there during the four months of the rainy season. He commenced his first series of one inonth's fasting, and lived in a solitary vacant apartment.
A man named Gośala, son of Mankhali Mankha and Subhadrā, so named as he was born in a cow-pen belonging to a Brähmina named Bahula, moving about alone and maintaining himself by the sale of paintings drawn on drawing-boards came and took his lodging at the place where śramaņa Bhagavān Mahavira was standing in religious contemplation with bis arms extended. We shall give an account of his birth later on but we shall at first briefly narrate how he became Mańk hali Mankha
MANKHALI PUTRA COS'ALA
In the northern regions there is a gunniveśa named Silindha. There lived a watch-man of the village, named Keśava who had a son named Mankha by his obedient and loving wife śivā.
The boy eventually attained youth. One day he went to a lake, a.companied by his father. Having finished his bath, he sat on a bank of the lake. At that time he saw a couple of ruddy goose, delighted at heart by a bond of excessive mutual affection and sportiug in various ways, and when both of them were showing mutual love by participating in a little bit of a hollow stalk of a fresh lotus cut by the concavity of their bili, when they were doing niutual close embrace under the appre. hension of Sun-set, wben they were under a suspicion of separation, at a time when they were gazing at their handsome form reflected in water, and when both of them were absorbed in the expression of fraudless love, a hunter, walking with slow steps end without, in the least, acquainting them of his approach, drew a bow towards his ear and threw an arrow towards them, like the God of Death. By the dispensation of Fate, the arrow
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