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is going to a distant town. Tell your king to come here secretly on that day.
Abhaya Kumāra had previously engaged a man mostly resembling King Caņda Pradyota, with regard to his bodily constitution and features. He was actually trained to imitate insanity. His name was Pradyota. For a number of days, this man was daily taken to a physician, in a bed-stead, and bound as a luna. tic, passing through a number of public places. The feigned lunatic was loudly shouting:-) am Pradyota. This man is taking me away. Catch ! Catch ! Protect! Protect ! People of the town had become very familiar with this daily rehearsal.
King Canda Pradyota went to the lodgings of Abhaya Kumāra, very secretly and all alone The mercenaries of Abhaya Kumāra, bound him hand and foot, and, tightly fastening him to the same bed-stead, they had him carried through various marketing places, by the same bed-stead bearers. King Caņda Pradyota was loudly shouting that he was being taken away but the people thought that he must be the lunatic Pradyota. King Caņda Pradyota of Ujjainî was, thus, taken to Räjagriha as a captive. Abhaya Kumāra released him after a few days
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A wood-cutter of Rājagriha had taken Bhāgavati Diksa from Canadhara Mahārāja Sriman Sudharman Swami. When he was going for bhikṣ& (alms) into Rajagriha Nagara, some persons of the town, who knew him previously, tauntingly told him:You were toiling hard to get your bread before, but, now, you have become an ascetic in order that you may get your food without any work Becoming disgusted with such impolite treatment, the ascetic requested Ganadhara Mahārāja Sudharman Swāmi :- Bhagavan ! Let us go away to some other place, as these people are troubling me.'
When Abhaya Kumara came to know about the ill-treatment of a Jina Sāddhus by the public of Rājagriha, he had three heaps
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