Stories From Jainism

Author(s): Mrugendramuni
Publisher: Jain Yoga Foundation

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VAJRASWAMI
hạnagiri was a brahmin who lived in Tumbivan. He
had a wife named Sunanda. She was beautiful and a good woman.
Once her husband saw a Jain monk called Singhgiri. He was so much impressed by the monk's words that Dhanagiri left his pregnant wife and became a Sadhu.
In course of time, Sunanda gave birth to a boy who was very lovely. On seeing the boy, a woman of Sunanda's neighbourhood remarked, “Had Dhangiri been not a monk, he would have celebrated the birth of this child with great enthusiasm." The child heard these remarks. Thereby he was so much agitated that he soon began to remember his past life, and he began to cry. Thereafter he used to cry very often and this gave trouble to his mother.
After some time Arya Singhgiri visited the town with his disciples including Dhanagiri. Dhanagiri went to Sunanda's house to beg for food. The child began to cry then. Hence Sunanda said to her former husband, “Look at this child. I am so much troubled by this child. Why don't you relieve me
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