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The river, on whose bank, the disciple-Muni was practising tapa (austerities), one day, became heavily flooded with rainwaters from surrounding districts, but floods disappeared quickly without doing any harm either to the crop or to animals owing to sanctity of his austerities. From that time, onward, that Muni has been nick-named Kūla-väluka. It seems, he must be living at present, somewhere in near vicinity.
Māgadhikā, on getting this much information, went to that place under the guise of a pilgrimage to various sacred places. She saw Kūlavāluka Muni there and enticing him with sweet words and highly polite manners, she invited the Muni for alms at her lodgings. Māgadhika gave a drug mixed with his food, which caused severe diarrhoea to the Muni. By a number of loose motions repeated at very frequent intervals, the body of the Muni became greatly enfeebled. He had no strength even to cover his owh body. Now, the treacherous prostttute Magadhikā came to the Muni and saying that she cannot, under any circumstance leave him in a wretched condition, she remained in constant attendance on the Muni, acting like a nurse. She was washing him, lifting up his body, shampooing his body and doing all sorts of comforts for his body. With gradual increase in strength, the cor.start touch of the body of a very handsome charming young female, began to have its natural deleterious effects on the mind of the young Muni. māgadhikā enticed the the Muni and he accompanied her to campā Nagari. Now, at Campà Nagari, King Kūņika requested the Muni to find out a stratagem by which the capture of Vaisali Nagari will be an easy task for him Infatuated by Magadhika, the helples Muni entered Vaisāli with his ascetic's apparal without the slightest hindrance. In the meantime, King Kūpika had made his seige round Vaisāli utterly impassable.
When Kiila-vāluka Muni was moving about in Vaisāli for making inquires about the cause for the unassailability of Vaisäti Nagari, he saw a marble stúpa (a domeshaped monument ).
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