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thought, "He, though a boy, is better than I." Then Vijaya installed his son, Purandara, in his kingdom and took the vow under Muni Nirvāṇamoha. Purandara put on the throne his son, Kirtidhara, borne by Pṛthivi, and became an ascetic under the sage, Kṣemankara. Then King Kirtidhara enjoyed pleasures of the senses with his wife Sahadevi, like Purandara with Paulomi.
CHAPTER FOUR
One day, when he was desirous of becoming a mendicant, the ministers said to him: "Taking the vow is not suitable for you while you have no son. If you take the vow, childless, this earth will be without a lord. So wait until you have a son, master."
Then in the course of time a son, Sukośala, was borne by Sahadevi to Kirtidhara who had remained a householder. Sahadevi concealed him as soon as born with the idea that "My husband will become a mendicant, if he knows that the boy has been born."
The king found out about the boy even though hidden. Who is able to conceal the sun when it has risen? Then the king, expert in his own good, put Sukośala on the throne and took the vow under Süri Vijayasena. Practicing severe penance, enduring the trials, he went elsewhere in his wandering which was solitary by permission of his guru.
One time, after he had fasted for a month, he came to Saketa to break his fast and wandered about in it at noon for alms. Sahadevi, who was on the roof of the palace, saw him and reflected: "When he, my husband, became a mendicant, I was bereft of a husband in the past. If my son Sukośala should become a mendicant now after seeing him, then I would have no son." After that, I would be deprived of husband and son. Therefore he, though innocent of crime, though my husband, though an ascetic, must be banished from the city because of a desire to preserve my son's government."
With this thought, the queen expelled him with the other ascetics. How long would there be discernment
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