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amongst you all." To honour their mother's words, the tive Pandavas married Draupadi; ans Vyäsa then allotted the particular number of days when Draupadi should stay with each of them. The Jain legend offers a different explanation: In one of her former births Draupadi was bron as a girl with whom it was impossible to cohabit. ... she became a nun but the desire for carnal or animal passions was there. when, therefore she once happened to see a courtesan enjoying amorous pleasures in the company of five men, she at once exclaimed: If I am to get any fruit for these austerities of mine, let me also enjoy these such pleasures in my next birth." As a result she gets five husbands (pandavas) in her next birth. The text itself does not supply and moral. According to the commentator the moral of the legend is as follows: Even the most severe austerities are vitiatd by nidäna, e.g. the austerities of Draupadi were wasted in her birth as Sukumārikā. or, giving something bad as a gift to the worthy recipients and that too without any sincerity (devotion) leads to evil; just as the gift of the bitter gourd - preparation which ultimately killed the monk Charmaruci-, proved disastrous to Draupadi in
her birth as Nāgasri. S. No. 14: This story of sailaka is based on Näyā, Ch. V entitled
'Selaga-näyam' (Silaka-jñātaṁ) and Dhammakanā Vol. I, Part II, pp. 74-75, 84-91. According to the commentator, the moral of this story is as follows: Sidhiliya-samjama-kajjā vi hoium ujjamasti jai pacchā/ sainvegão te selao wa ārāhayā homtill Translation : Monks who become loose in their way of
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