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The king, told by the Master, “You must not be negligent,' went to his house and spoke to his sons respectively: “Son Vijaya, take the kingdom you have inherited. Vaijayanta, do you act as his yuvarāj. I shall become a mendicant. I shall go to the Jina, that I may not come again into this abyss of existence." They said: “Father, just as you are terrified of existence, so are we terrified of existence. Surely we are your sons. We also shall become mendicants. For these are two results of mendicancy: service to you in this world and attainment of emancipation in the next.”
Saying, “Very well, sons,” the bountiful king gave his kingdom, though very great, to someone else. Abhayaghosa went with his sons and adopted mendicancy before Jina Ananta, while the holy congregation looked on. The three practiced severe penance, and the king acquired the family and body-making karma of an Arhat by means of the twenty sthānakas. The three died in the course of time and went to Acyuta and became gods with the maximum life of twenty-two sāgaras.
Now there is a city Puņdarīkiņī in the province Puşkalavatī, the ornament of East Videha in this Jambūdvipa. Its king was Hemărigada and his wife was Vajramālini, like Saci of Vajrin. Then Abhayaghoşa fell and descended into her womb, his rank of Arhat indicated by fourteen great dreams. When the time was completed, Vajramālini bore a son; and Vajrin, et cetera, made his birth-bath. Right now he, Ghanaratha by name, protects the earth, a Tirthakệt. Vijaya and Vaijayanta became you two Vidyādharas.'
After they had heard this account of their former births, delighted, they bowed to the muni and came here with devotion to see you, their father in a former birth. They arranged the meeting of the cocks, which was a means of seeing you, from curiosity, Master. Now, after they have gone to the guru Bhogavardhana and have
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