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any power to touch you. But in case you are induced to look at her by her amorous pranks or by threats, I will, at once, throw you into the sea from my back and the goddess will instantly kill you." Having consented to act with firm determination, both the brothers rode on his back and they started on their journey towards Campă Nagarî
As soon as she returned to her palace after completing her work of cleaning the Lavana Samudra, she could not find the two brothers there. She at once realised the exact situation and followed them. She tried to terrify them in various ways but when she saw that they were not at all unsteady, she tried to entice them by amorous pranks. Out of the two brothers, Jina Rakṣita was attracted by her lovely and sweet amorous words, and as soon as he looked at her with affectionate eyes, the Yaksa forcibly threw him into the sea from his back, and the goddess, taking him on her sword, at once slew him. When Jina Pălita came near Campa Nagarî, the Yaksa put him down near a garden. Jina Pâlita went to his own house and narrating his hardships before his parents with tears in his eyes, he informed them about the death of his brother Jina Raksita. With the disappearance of sorrow in course of time, all of them began to pass their days happily.
At this time, Śramana Bhagavana Mahavira came to Campă Nagari On hearing the preaching, Jina Pälita took Bhagavati Dîkṣā, at the pious hands of the Worshipful Lord, for the welfare of his Soul, with the permission of his parents Taking the account of both the brothers as a precept, Sramaņa Bhagavāna Mahavira preached as follows-Those monks and nuns, who becoming bewildered by the infatuation of vowlessness, leave off ascetic life by sheer cowardice, suffer terrible miseries during endless wanderings in various existences in infinite Saṁsāra, like Jina Rakṣita, and those who like his brother Jina Palta, are firm in their vows, easily cross the ocean of this terrible Samsara. At Campa Nagarî, there was another marine merchant named
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