Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 5

Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication

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Kuņdarika was greatly enraged with them at heart. He thought "I will have extremely savoury dishes for my food, eat them to my entire satisfaction, and then, I will kill all who are derıdırg me." He went, then, into the palace, took all varieties of food and drink-material filling his stomach right up to the neck, and woke up the whole night, with the object of satisfying his carnal desires, Waking up during night and indigestion of an excessive quantity of food and drink-material, produced diarrhoea accompanied with vomiting. He suffered agonizing pains. His stomach became full-blown, like bellows perfectly filled with air. There was tight blocking up of wind, and he had intense thirst. His ministers and others, thinking that the wicked man had broken huis vows did not do any medicinal treatment for him, and did not allow any one else to do the treatment for him He was suffering severe pain. He thought, "If , any how, get over this illness, I will have all these oficers and their family-members killed brutally in the morning." With such evil ideas, and formidable sentiments of wrath, Kuņdarika died during the night, and was born as a at Nāraka,-a hellish being-in afagia Tie Apratisthāna Narakāvāsa,-a hellish den named Apratişthāna -in the seventh hell."
"Therefore, 0 members of the assembly ! emaciation or plumpness of the body among strict ascetics is not an essential element. Good meditation is the only causal agent of Blissful Life.”
Vaiśramaņa Deva heard attentively the account of Pundarika and Kundarika narrated by Ganadhara Mahārāja Indrabhūti Gautama He acquired 777** Samyaktva,- Right Belief-from that moment, and becoming glad by the explanation given by Ganadhara Mahārāja Indrabhūti Gautama about the doubt lingering tn his mind, he bowed down respectfully once more before him, and went to his abode.
Having finished the
preaching, Ganadhara Mahārāja