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celeship beings, went 20 Saqmini-gränia and renained in käyor. sárga with his arms hanging at & piace free from vermin. At that time, the painful evil Karma of having caused the death of his sayyäpāla ( servant of bed-chainber ) through agonising paino in his ears by having poured molteu lead into his ears during his previous bhava as Tripristha Vasudéva, became ripe for its evil consequences. The soul of say y&pāla who was born as a cow-herd in chat villaye, lest his oxen grazing near the Worshipfvl Jinésvara who was in käyotearga and went into the village for inilking his cows. While grazing without any restraint, the oxen we away into a forest. The cowherd came there and when he could not find die Oxen be asked the Wortby Bhagav&n O good man! wliere are my oxer? Wben Bhagavān did not 203wer, the cowherd, biting his own lower lip on account of violent abger resembling the forest-fire of the time oi annihila. tion of the world, again said :-- O wicked man! Do you not hear whatever I tell you? When I respectfully asked you, you did not even care to repiy, as if your heart were made of ada-- mant. It seene you are deal you do not hear what I say.” Then pointing to his cars, the cownerd said :- "What is the use of having these worthless cavities of als? With these words bae angrily pushed with great force a big nail into both his ears with very ciuel intenti05%, and he drove them in such a way that the central portion of each wall would touch each other forming a long continuous stick. Besides, lest some one may not take out the rails from ine ears, the distal ends of the two nails were cut very sbore, so that key became alınost invisible. Although śrainaņa Bhagavān Mabávîra was perfectly free from ibe talya thorn) of wrong belief but being afflicted with a deep Saiya pojated object; in his body, he became weak on account of unbearable agony although he was extremely courageous. He did wot, hi the least, ewerve from his religious medication.
Sramapa Bhagavān Mabăvira then went to Madhyama Apãpå Nagari and while moving about from house to house for alms, he went to the house of a rich merchant named Siddhartha for break-fast. There a physicias named Kbaraka a favourite
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