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the sun at midday contracted the splendor of his enemies like the shadow of a body. He shone with great magnificence and strength and much power like a sixty-fifth Indra to the sixty-four.
His wife was named Mangalā, the abode of auspicious things, the banner of virtues, like a household Lakṣmi personified. She dwelt in the heart of her husband, and her husband in her heart; living in houses by the pair was unessential. Either when walking somewhere, in a garden, etc., or when in the house, she meditated on her husband more than on a divinity. She surpassed the Apsarases in beauty of form and grace. Beautiful-eyed, she surpassed even the moon in beauty of face. Her distinguished form and beauty, gifted with superexcellence, adorned each other like a ring and a jewel. Eternal delight was to the King experiencing delights with her, like Mahendra with Paulomi.
CHAPTER THREE
His conception (139-142)
Now, the jiva of Purușasinha, living in the palace Vaijayanta, completed his life of thirty-three sagaras. On the second day of the bright half of Śrāvaṇa, the moon standing in conjunction with Magha, he descended into the womb of Queen Mangalā. Then Queen Mangală saw the fourteen dreams, the elephant, etc., which indicate the birth of a Tirthankara. Queen Mangala carried the embryo, which had become the support of the three worlds, concealed, like the earth carrying a treasure.
Story of disputed parentage' (143-178)
Now, a certain rich man left the city at that time to go to a distant foreign country on business. He was 428 The rather common Solomon's judgment' motif. In IA 42 (1913), pp. 148 ff., Tessitori discusses four versions in Jaina literature; one from Malayagiri's com. to the Nandisutra and one in Rajasekhara's Antarakathāsangraha, and two in vernacular. See also G., p. 472. In Knowles, Folk Tales of Kashmir, p. 255, the story concerns two mares and a foal. Cf. also, Hertel, Indische Erzähler, Vol. 9, p. 15.
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