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SIXTH INCARNATION AS APARĀJITA
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Kirtidhara, of his wife Väyuvegă. My wife was named Anilavegā, the head of my harem. Once upon a time she saw three dreams while she was asleep in the night. An elephant as white as Kailāsa, a fine bull roaring like a cloud, a pitcher which resembled a treasure-pitcher-these were the three dreams in succession. At the end of the night the chief-queen, whose face was blooming then like a lotus, related these dreams to me. I said, 'You will have a son who will be master of a three-part territory, with half the power of a cakravartin.'
At the proper time the queen bore a son, who resembled a god, complete with all favourable marks, like a mine bearing a jewel. Because I had been especially victorious over my enemies while he was in the womb, I named him Damitāri. Gradually he grew up and gradually he absorbed the arts, and gradually he attained youth purified by beauty.
One day the Lord, the Jina, causing tranquillity, the noble-minded Sānti, 800 wandering to another place in the province, victorious, stopped in a samavasaraņa. After I had paid homage to him, I sat down and listened to a sermon. I became disgusted with existence at once and established Damitāri in the kingdom. Then I adopted mendicancy at Śrī Sānti's feet and at that time undertook two kinds of discipline, grahaņa and äsevanā.310 I performed pratimă for a year on the mountain here and just now omniscience arose from the destruction of the ghātikarmas. Damitäri became a king, a powerful Prativisņu, to whom the cakra had appeared, who had conquered the three-part territory. The soul of Sridattā became you, his daughter Kanakaśrī, by Damitāri's wife Mádirā. Because she died without confessing and repenting her doubt,
809 301. Of course, not our śāntinātha, but one in Videha in a past period.
810 303. Grahaņaśikṣā is the study of the sūtras, the acquisition of knowledge of religious practices; asevanāśikṣā is the practice of them. See the Rājendra, s.v. sikkhā, and the Dharmaratnaprakaraṇa 36.
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