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*O daughter! Be calm." Having consoled her getha went into the kithen. He examined all the utensils of keeping food but he could not get rice or any other article of food left over. So he took some adada (phasecllue) beads in a (eri) ( a winnowing fan made of bamboo reds) and giving them to Cardona, he said: 'Chlld! I am going to call a blacksmith for the purpose of breaking ofen your iron-chains. In the meanwhile, you eat these beane." So saying, the went for the black-smith. On seeing the beane lying before her, like a female elepbant sesa. rated from her flock, Candanā, lamenting her condition after remembering her family circumstances, said:--"Ah! Fate! When you give me birth in a royal family, why did you throw me in an ocean of misery hard to traverse! Ah! Why did that royal wealth, that unique affection of my parents, and every thing else, suddenly disappear like a mirage? Really, the diversions of Fateup-lifting for a moment and throwing immediately after a moment--resemble a banner-cloth flying with a gust of strong wind.” With her throat chocked with Intense sorrow and with a faltering voice caused by it the poor girl was washing her face with a ceaseless flow of tears. Ther, placing her face with her cheeks withered on a acccunt of hunger and thirst. The wept for mrment and with deep signs, she took, for the purpose ni eating, the 22da brans lying in corner of the supadun (IT) winnowing fan inade of bamboo reeds) disinteresicdly like tbc mind of a mudi (an inspired sage). But what is the un-ratable for one who is distresked with hunger? At that very moment, a happy idee came to her mind If any mend!cant comes here at this time, it lo desirable that I should give him alms and then I will take my meal." With this idea, she looked at the dons and she saw that Sramana Bhagavão Mahāvira who was filling up as it were the vault of the sky with the elegant splendour of gold; who was pacifying niserable Creatures, as it were, by the showering of nectar in the form of the tranquilizicg brightness of his eyes; who was embellishing, as it were, in various ways, the surface of ihe earth with his pair of feet marked with noun tains, towns Sri Vatea ( tufs or curl os bair a particular shape
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