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stands the temple of Daśadasa adorned with Visakha columns on the bank of the river Suvarṇarekhā.
SOME JAINA CANONICAL SUTRAS
Vastupala built Marudevi's temple. Tejapāla constructed three caityas. Minister Depāla rescued the temple of Indra. Here is a water-pit of Govinda stamped with the feet of Indra's elephant called Airavata. On ascending the top of the Chatraśila mountain the temple of the goddess Ambika can be seen. Thence is visible the pinnacle of the Avalokana mountain.
Asvavabodha tirtha.-Having attained perfect beatitude, Jina Suvrata came from Pratisthanapura to the forest of Korinta in Bharukaccha for instructing king Jitaśatru, then engaged in a horse sacrifice. He was welcomed both by the king and people. The Lord gave the king religious instructions, relating a story of his previous birth.
On hearing the words of the Lord, the king recollected his previous existence. After death he was reborn as a god in Sudharmā. He erected a jewelled caitya at the place where the Lord could be seen. He installed an image of Suvrata. It is from this circumstance that this shrine is called Asvavabodh-tirtha. In course of time, it became noted as Sakunikā Vihāra.
Candragupta was a king of Śrīpura in Ceylon. Candralekha was his wife. He worshipped the goddess Naradattā for a son, and was favoured with a daughter named Sudarśana. Once a merchant, Dhanesvara by name, came from Bharukaccha. On hearing from his mouth the formula:
namo arhantam,' Sudarsana fell into a fit. On regaining consciousness, she recollected her own condition in her former life. When the king asked her the cause of her fit, she said:
'In my previous birth I was born as a vulture living on a banyan tree in the forest of Korinta on the bank of the Narmadā. Once during the rains there was a heavy shower for seven nights. On the eighth day I went to obtain flesh from the house of a fowler who pierced me with an arrow and went away, taking the arrow and the flesh fallen from my mouth. I began to cry piteously. One sūri saw me in this plight and poured forth water into my mouth. After my death, was reborn as his daughter.' Averse to worldly affairs she, with her parents' permission, went to Bharukaccha with that merchant. One day she asked the preceptor what he knew of her previous existence. He said:
'King Sankha reigned in the city of Suramya on the mountain of Veyaddha. You were his daughter Vijaya by One day you saw a snake (kukkuṭasarpa) on the bank
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