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CHAPTER SIX separation from me. Shame on me, subservient.' With these reflections, she showed him as he came to Madhu and Madhu felt remorse at his own evil deed. Madhu put his son Dhundhu on the throne; and together with Kaițabha took the vow under the guru Vimalavāhana. They practiced severe penance many thousand years, knowing the twelve angas, always doing service to sādhus. They both fasted at the end, made confession, died, and became Sāmānikas in Mahāśukra.
King Kanakaprabha, afflicted by hunger and thirst, after fasting for three thousand years, died. He became a god among the Jyotişkas, Dhūmaketu by name. Knowing by clairvoyance the former hostility, he searched for Madhu's soul. The god did not see Madhu because of his magnificent rank as a god.194 When he fell and obtained a human birth, he became a (Brāhman) ascetic. He practiced foolish penance and became a Vaimānika; and in this birth, too, he was not able to see the magnificent Madhu. After he had fallen and wandered through existence from submission to karma, again he became a god in the Jyotişkas, named Dhūmaketu.
At this time Madhu's soul fell from Mahāśukra and appeared in the womb of Rukmiņi, chief-queen of Vāsudeva. Because of former enmity, Dhūmaketu seized the boy as soon as born and, wicked, wishing to kill him, threw him on top of the rock Țarka. Uninjured from his own power, he was taken by Samvara. His union with Rukmiņi will take place at the end of sixteen years." : * Asked by Nārada, “Because of what act has Rukmiņi been separated in this way from her son ?” Lord Sīmandhara related:
Cause of separation from son (229-238)
“ In the country Magadha in Bharatakşetra in Jambūdvipa in the village Lakşmigrāma there was a Brāhman, Somadeva.
194 222. Madhu was a Sāmānika, which is a much higher rank than Jyotişka.
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