Sthaviravali

Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay
Publisher: Jain Granth Prakashak Sabha

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Having said this much, the Brāhmin's grand-daughter stood silent. The king asked her “What happened next? The girl said “My time is over, I am going home." The king asked her “How can I see that girl? The Brāhmin's granddaughter then replied “I am that very girl. I am an actress on the stage of this worldly play. The king said " Is whatever you say, true ? She said “If the stories told before you by the people are genuine, then only, my story is also sucb. Saying so she went away to her house.
Jayasri addressing Jambu Kumāra, said, My dear husband ! why do you deceive us by story-telling, in the way Nāgasri did the king ?
: Jambū Kumāra thereupon replied "I am not deeply engrossed in pleasures of this world like afgain galt Lalitānya Kumāra. Hear his story
THE STORY OF LALITĀNGA KUMĀRA.
There was a very powerful king named pargy Śatāyudha at a town named *1gr Kandarpakogapura. He had a queen named largat Lilāvati.
One day, when queen Lilāyati, decorated with costly garments and valuable ornaments, was sitting in a balcony of her palace, she saw a very handsome young man--an actual incarnation of Cupid-lhe god of Love-passing that way, riding a swift horse. Lilāvati fell in love with bim as soon as she saw him and began to suffer from the pangs of the arrows of Cupid.
Lalitānga Kumāra, also, on seeing her, fell in love witb her. Thinking the wife of a king to be inaccessible for such purposes, Lalitānga Kumāra went home.