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CHAPTER V Twenty-first Year of Ascetic Life. (B. C. 548–47)
1. Diksā of Dhanya Setha and Sunakṣatra of Kākandi. 2. Vrata-grahaņa of Kunda Kaulika of Kāmpilya Nagara, 3. Vratagrahaņa of Saddāla -putra of Poläsa-pura.
Soon after the rainy season, Śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvira went to Mithilā From Mithila, he went to Käkandi. Śrávasti, Kämpilya-pura, and Polâsa-pura The gods arranged Samavasaranas at Kākandi, Kāmpilya-pura and Poläsapura.
1. Diksā of Dhanya Śétha of Kakandi. At Kākandi there lived a very rich caravan -merchant named Dhanā Śétha and his wife Bhadrā Sèthāņi. They were very wealthy. They had a son named Dhanya The boy was brought up in great affluence and with much fondness. When Dhanya Kumāra attained youth, he was married with thirty-two hand-some girls of noble birth and wealthy parents. His mother Bhadra Śéthāņi had got thirty-two nice palatial buildings furnished with all the necessaries of enjoyment prepared for them, and had given one palace with various paraphalia to each of them. Besides, she had given to each one of them much weaith as a gift of love. Dhanya Kumāra was enjoying worldly pleasures and constantly amusing himself with dramatic performances, singing, dancing etc, like a Do-ganduka god, in company with his young and beautiful wives. He, thus, passed many years in enjoying the happy pleasures of every season of the year.
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