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EIGHTH INCARNATION AS VAJRĀYUDHA 267 Previous births of śāntimatī and Ajitasena (105–138)
Vindhyadatta was king in the city Vindhyapura in Airāvata in this same Jambūdvipa. He had a son, Nalinaketu, with all the male auspicious marks, by his wife, Sulaksaņā. In that same city there was the crest-jewel of traders, Dharmamitra, like the sun to the lotuses of friends. His wife, Srīdattā, bore a son, Datta; and Datta had a wife, Prabhankarā, of divine form.
One day in spring he went to play in a garden with his wife, like Makaradhivaja with Rati. The king's son, Nalinaketú; came at that time, saw Prabhankarā, and was struck by Smara's arrows. 'Oh! her beauty is to be praised and he who sports with her is to be praised, also,' thinking to himself, afflicted with love, he kidnaped her. Nalinaketu, like Mīnaketu, sported with her at will constantly in pleasure-gardens, rivers, tanks, et cetera. Datta, tormented by the fire of separation from her, wandered like a crazy man in every direction in the garden, thinking of Prabhankarā. As he was wandering there, he saw the best of funis, Sumanas, the sight of whom is a collyrium of nectar for the eye. At that time the omniscience of Muni Sumanas appeared, day for the destruction of the darkness of ignorance, from the destruction of the ghātikarmas. The gods celebrated the omniscience festival and Datta worshipped the muni's totus-feet. After he had drunk nectar 'in the form of the muni's sermon, Datta abandoned at once the misery of his former pain. His passions suppressed, devoted to liberality-dharma del constantly, engaged in pure meditation, he passed the maximum human life and was born in the best city, Svarnatilaka, on Mt. Vaitādhya in the best province Sukaccha in East Videha in Jambūdvīpa as the son of the Vidyādhara-king, named Mabendravikrama, by his wife Amilavegā. His father gave him the name Ajitasena and duly gave him magic arts. For they are their principal wealth. When
821 118. See I, p. 19.
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