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Having repeatedly saluted and having bowed down at the lotuslike feet of the worshipful Lord, the obedient Mégha Kumāra Muni said:-Bhagavan ! Except my eyes, I renounce my whole body in the service of Sädhus'. Ilaving taken this vow, Mégha Kumāra Muni became more and more energetic in his religious duties, and having completed lus ascetic life without the slightest defect, and having remained without food and drink for one month during his death-bed, on Vipula cui near Rājagrina, Mégha Kumāra Muni died, and was born as a god in Vijaya Vimāna Descending from the Vijaya Vimăna in due course of time, Megha Kumāra Muni will be born in Mahā Vidéha Ksétra, and will then attain Moksa (Liberation).
7. Nandisèna Kumāra. During the first varsā -vāsa (staying during the four months of the rainy season) at Rājagriha, of śramaņa Bhagavân Mahāvīra, numerous males and females attracted by his disinterested preachings, became his followers Like Mégha Kumāra, another son Nandişeņa Kumăra ot King Sréņika became ready to take Dikṣā from śramaņa Bhagavan Mahavira. The name of Nandiséņa Kumāra is inseparably connected with the account of elephant Sécanaka the chief elephant of King Śréņikathe elephant, who became, in late years, the cause of a terrible war between the kingdoms of Magadha and Vaisāli.
An Account of Sécanaka Elephant A chief elephant of a herd of wild elephants killed all the male elephants of his herd, under the impression that when-the young elephant grew up and became strong, he would kill him in his old age, and would try to become the master of all the female-elephants of his herd
One pregnant female-elephant became separated from the herd, and having gone to the residential quarters of hermits, and having given birth to a male elephant she kept the newly-born elephant under the merciful care of the hermits, and she went back to her own herd.
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