Tale of Shree Nabhakraj

Author(s): Merutungacharya, Gunsundarvijay
Publisher: Divya Darshan Trust

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HORRIBLE RESULT OF MISUSE OF DEVDRAVYA
The King inquired from the God about the past birth of that donkey-ass, The Omniscient narrated the entire story of the two brothers Samudra and Sinh from its' beginning and further added - 'This donkey is the soul of that Sinh - the brother of the King Samudrapal. He suffered extreme tortures in the world and thereafter having become of less-sinful karmas, he got birth as an ass for 6 times. In the 7th re-birth he became a three-sensed life and because some of his sins had remained in balance, he took birth as assin this town for six more times. This is his again 6th birth as an ass. Thus, there were his 12 re-births. In his birth as Sinh - he had misappropriated' 12,000/- dinārs of the Dev-dravya. That (sinful) karma, being in balance, he reached this degraded state 'Twelve thousand Dinars of Devdravya were misused - destroyed, as the outcome of that (sinful) karma, he got re-birth as an ass for 'twelve times'. In every birth as an ass due to practice to climb the top of the mountain for purpose of the potmaker, it climbs the mountain by itself'.
Upon hearing this incident from the Omniscient, the King Chandrāditya felt pity for the ass. He advised the pot-maker to take proper care of the ass. The pot-maker too, now takes proper care of the ass. Noble minded ass gradually died. Due to noble mindedness it became a human being (villager) namely- Bhānu in a village namely Marusthal. The King banished him from his kingdom, He reached the bank of river Gangã. Here, he could not obtain proper livelihood. He could not face the poverty - incomeless position for time and again. Therefore, he started his livelihood out of the income through cruel-deeds.
Once upon a time, a Brahmin (Brahmin=Name of a caste) was returning from the pilgrimage of Shree Shatrunjaya to his place. The Brahmin alongwith his wife and a son reached the village at night. On the next day morning, when that Brahmin was on his way to leave the village, the wicked Bhãnu killed him, his wife, their son and a cow. Running away from there, when he came on the banks of river Ganga, he saw in the evening, a muni in Käussagga mudrã (a still posture).
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