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VĀSUPŪJYACARITRA
Death of Parvata (185–188) Like a tiger that has missed his leap, like a monkey that has fallen from its branch,105 Parvataka remained broken by battle from that time, alas! King Parvataka, shamed by his defeat, became a mendicant under Ācārya Sambhava. He performed penance hard to do and made a nidāna: "In another birth may I kill Vindhyasakti." Having bartered great penance in this way, like bartering a jewel for chaff, 108 he fasted at the end, died, and became a god in Pränata.
Incarnation of Vindhyasakti as Tāraka (189–192)
Vindhyasakti wandered in existence for a long time, adopted Jain garb in one birth, died, and became a kalpagod.107 When he fell, he was born the son, Śrīmant Tāraka, of King Sridhara by his wife Srimati in Vijayapura. Seventy bows tall, his figure black as collyrium, with a lifeterm of seventy-two lacs of years, he had unlimited strength of arm. At the death of his father, he obtained the cakra and conquered half of Bharata. For the Prativişņus are masters of half of Bharata.
Birth of Vijaya (193–203) Now there is a city named Dvärakā, the face-ornament of Surāstra, the base of its wall washed by the waves of the western ocean. Its king was Brahmā, whose strength was undulled, by whom everyone was subdued and repressed,
106 -185. See I, n. 369. In a popular magazine (Fact Digest, August, 1940) appears an article, Tales of Tigers, by Capt. Crayley Sims, in which it is said: 'Strangely enough, a tiger once having made its spring and missed, seems rather ashamed of itself.' Another confirmation of Hemacandra's accurate knowledge of natural history. See also App. I of this volume.
106 188. Because a nidāna is forbidden. See I, 17. 8 and II, n. 29. 107 189. In one of the twelve heavens.
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