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minded, practiced severe penance for a long time, as if from fear of abandonment by their emaciated bodies.825 Sāntimati died and became lord of Isana and just then the omniscience of the other two took place. The Indra Iśāna came, held their omniscience-festival, and worshipped his own body. Then Iśana fell and reached emancipation in another birth. The other two went to eternal bliss at the end of their life in this birth..
CHAPTER THREE
Story of Kanakaśakti (155-192)
Cakrin Vajrayudha with Sahasrāyudha directed the earth like Sahasrākṣa with Jayanta 326 the sky. One time Sahasrayudha's wife, Jayanā, saw in a dream at night a golden spear with projecting rays. She related this to her husband at daybreak and he said, "You will surely have a son of great power, O queen." At that very time she carried an embryo very difficult to carry; and at the right time she bore a jewel of a son, like the soil bearing grain. As a result of the dream seen by Queen Jayana the father gave the boy the name Kanakasakti. When he had gradually passed through childhood and was in his first youth, he married properly in the city Sumandira Merumalin's daughter, borne by Queen Malla, endowed with beauty and grace, Kanakamālā.
Now in the excellent city Masakyāsāra, preeminent in wealth, there was a king, Ajitasena. He had a daughter, Vasantasena, by Queen Priyasenā, and she was the best friend of Kanakamālā. Vasantasena's father, not finding a suitable husband, sent his daughter, choosing her husband herself, to Kanakaśakti. Then Kanakaśakti married her properly and her cousin, the son of her father's sister, was angry with her because of the marriage.
One time Kanakaśakti was wandering in a garden and saw a man flying up and falling like a cock. Kanakasakti
825 151. I.e., they were afraid their emaciated bodies would leave them in death and they practiced penance before this could happen. 826 155. A son of Indra.
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