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I reached omniscience by destruction of the destructive karmas.' 137 After telling this, Sinhakeśarin made obstruction of activity, destroyed the karma that prolongs existence,138 and attained emancipation. Then the kevalin's body was made the recipient of cremation by the gods, pure in heart, who had taken it to a holy place.
The pure-minded abbot, named Yathartha, adopted mendicancy at the feet of Sri Yaśobhadra Suri. Davadanti, her soul subdued, said to the sage, Blessed One, give me mendicancy, the mother of emancipation.' Yaśobhadra Sūri said, "Davadanti, now you must enjoy pleasures with Nala. You are not ready for the vow.'
When day had dawned, the sūri descended from the mountain and purified the city Tapasapura with his feet. After bowing to the shrine there, a teacher of the Arhats' dharma, an ocean of compassion, he caused the citizens to acquire right-belief.
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Bhaimi remained there, like a begging nun, in a cave for a house for seven years, engaged in pious meditation, her body and clothes soiled. One day a traveler told her, 'Today I saw your husband in such and such a place, Davadanti.' When the nectar of that speech was drunk, Davadanti's body expanded then with hair erect from joy. For that is a sign of affection. Thinking, Who is this that makes me expand?' Bhima's virtuous daughter ran after the sound like an arrow that strikes by sound. He, like a guarantee for drawing Bhima's daughter from the cave, went away after he had drawn her from the cave. She did not see the traveler; she abandoned the cave. In this way she lost both. For fate destroys the weak.
She happened upon a large forest and walked, stood, sat down, rested on the ground, lamented again and again, and cried from weariness. Considering, 'What shall I do? Where
137 692. Ghatikarma.
138 693. Upagrähikarma.
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