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The vidyadhara then went away to his celestial abode and the man suffered great agonies there.
Jambū Kumāra addressing Prabhava, said “In the same manner, O Prabhava! I am deeply engrossed in this unprofitable world for the sake of transieat pleasure.
The sonu Upanaya, Application of the story narrated by me is this:
The miserable man is the man of the world; the dreadful forest is the worldly existence; the elephant is death; the well is the world of mortals; the boa snake is hell; the four ordinary snakes are the four its Kashāyas passions-viz #ly Krodha, Anger, 1 Māna, Pride HIVI Māyā, Deceit and at Lobha, Greed; the Banyan tree is the allotted term of life; the two rats are the bright and the dark fortnights of the month; the honey-bees are the innumerable maladies of the body; the drop of honey is the taste of the sensual enjoyments; the Vidyadhara is the worthy Guru. He who renounces the unprofitable world. attains of Mukti, the state of Final Beatitude. Others, suffer the pangs of terrible miseries in hell like the miserable man of the story.
Prabha va then said “O Jambū Kumāra ! having renounced your affectionate mother and father, your wives and your relatives, why do you accept the great vow of 191 Dikśā. Initiation into an order of monks? Jambū Kumāra said " Hear a story about the worthlessness of worldly pleasures from me."
The story runs as follows:
In the city of Mathurā, a prostitute named Kubérsénā, after an intercourse with some unknown person, gave birth to a twin, consisting of one boy and one girl. After eleven days, the procuress said, “Children cannot be nourished at our house." You therefore leave them off at some deserted place". The prostitute, tbereupon, having put on a ring of gold, inscribed
