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against all ascetics.' Then the monks and the nuns, angered, went there and told the people, Somadeva and others. Nāgasri was driven from the house by the Brāhmans, Soma and others, and, being reviled by the people, wandered everywhere, miserable. She experienced hell even here on earth), afflicted by sixteen very severe diseases, 200 cough, asthma, fever, leprosy et cetera, Hungry, thirsty, wearing tattered garments, roaming without shelter, in time she died and went to the sixth hell.
Rising from hell, she was born in the Mlecchas and went to the seventh hell after death. Rising from that she was born in the fishes. Again she went to the seventh hell and again she was born in the Mlecchas. So she, wicked, in this way went to all the hells, twice to each one. Then she was born many times in earth-bodies, et cetera and she destroyed much bad karma from the activity of involuntary destruction of karma.
Then here in Campā she became the daughter, Sukumārikā, of Sheth Sāgaradatta and Subhadrā. In the same place there was a wealthy caravan-leader, Jinadatta. His wife was named Bhadrā and his son Sāgara. One day Jinadatta, while passing near Sāgaradatta's house, saw the girl Sukumārikā, who had grown up. He observed her playing with a ball on top of the house and went home, thinking, She is suitable for my son.'
Then Jinadatta went with relatives and asked Sāgaradatta for the girl Sukumärikā for his son. Sāgaradatta said, 'My daughter is dearer than my life. I can not exist at all without her. If your son, Sāgara, will live in my house as a son-in-law, then I will give him my daughter with a dowry, et cetera. Saying, 'I shall have him consider,' Jinadatta went home and told Sāgara. Sāgara stood silent. By the rule, ' unopposed is approved,' his father considered his son a
200 312. The 16 diseases as given in the Com. to Uv. 148 are: asthma, cough, fever, burning sensation, colic, fistula, hemorrhoids, indigestion, sharp pain in the eyes (glaucoma?), headache, lack of appetite, inflammation of the eyes, earache, itch, dropsy, leprosy. For another list see SBE 22, Ācārāngasūtra, I. 6.1.3. Cf. also LAI, p. 179,
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