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from the burden of sins of my former life !” The Guruji suggested him to atone for them by becoming the protector of Siddhăcala-the holy mountain. And the Kapardi carried out his orders and became the protector of the mountain.
An account of Vajra Swāmi's life also is connected with this Kapardī–Yakşa. This very Kapardi-Yaka had helped Javada Shāh in protecting Satrunjaya.
The Dikşā-paryāya (period of renunciation) of Vājraséna was very long, and during that period he had performed many good deeds. He left this world and acquired Eternal Bliss in Vīra-Samvat 620.
ARYA RAKSITASURI:
There lived, in Dashapura Nagara of King Udayana, Somadéva-the royal priest who had two sons named Arya Rakşita and Faigu Rakşıta, and a wife named Rudrasomā. Somadéya gave out all the knowledge he possessed to his sons. Who would like to conceal his knowledge from his own sons ? Yet as if unsatished with it, Ārya Raksıta went to the city of Pata. liputra for further studies There, by bis intelligence, he grasped up the knowledge of all the concealed Vedas and Upanišads; and returned to come home. His father conveyed the news of his learned son's arrival to the king who, then, with great pomp and honour, welcomed him.
Though Somadeva was a priest, his wife was a devout follower of Jaina-Dharma. She knew even the nine elements of Jivājívādika. She was in her Sāmāyıka' when Ārya Rakşita came home. So just to avoid the fault of breaking it, she did not offer her blessings to him even when he bowed down to her. Her attitude pained the son. When she finished the Sāmāyika, he asked her the reason of doing so. She replied, “O unworthy-one ! How can I be satisfied with such a typle of scholarship of yours ?' Ārya Rakşita was wonder
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