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thy. Saints are always full of mercy.' Sagara Candra Muni again said 0 King i I will make these two boys quite healthy, only if they consent to take Dikşa. Otherwise not.' On seeing the persistence of Sagara Candra Rajarsi on this point, the king consulted both the boys, and with their consent, the Rājarsi rubbed their bodies in such a way that their joints became normal again. Sâgara Candra Rājarsi gave Bhagavatî Diksā to the two princes and took them along with himself in vihāra (sojourn)
The king's son, from that time on-ward, thought:- This great sage Sagara Candra Rājarsi is my chief benefactor as he has saved me from falling into the abyss of Samsåra On the other hand, the purohit's son thought-Why did this Muni fraudulently entrap me with this Diksā ? Fie on him!' The king s son observed all his religious ceremonies with great devotion, and the purohits son did it with malice. Both of them, after death, were born as affluent gods in the same Vimāna (aerial car) under happy conditions. They used to go together to Eternal Siddhã yatanas in their Déva-loka, and by rendering service to Jaina Sådhus, their Samyaktva became purer. Both of them, then, came to one decision that out of two of us, he, who remains as a god in déva-loka, should go down to human habitation, and instruct the other who is born as a human being, in the discharge of his spiritual duties towards his soul.
Now the purohiti's son, descending from the svarga-bhūmi ( heavens), was born in the house of a Candāla ( a man of the lowest stratum of society ) on account of his malice towards Säd. hûs ). The wife of the Caņdala had friendship with the wife of a wealthy merchant of the town The pregnant wife of the mer. chant one day told the wife of the Caņāla who was going out to sell her meat .- good woman ! You do not go to other persons for the sale of your meat I will daily buy all the meat that you may have for sale. The Candāls wife, was then giving all her meat to the merchant's wife and she was getting extra high prices from her. This bargaining between the two women
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