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BRAHMADATTACAKRICARITA
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Sanatakumāra showed them Namuci. Namuci, who had been taken to a place suitable for execution, was freed from Sanatkumāra by them, like a snake from a garuda. Though he deserved to die, the king released him, after banishing him, who was a caṇḍāla in behavior, from the city, like a caṇḍāla. For the command of the guru must be respected.
Sunanda, the cakrin's woman-jewel, attended by sixty-four thousand co-wives, came to pay homage to them. She, with loosened hair, fell at Muni Sambhūta's lotus-feet and by her face made the earth like the moon., Muni Sambhuta felt the touch of her hair and at once his hair stood up with joy. Manmatha is a seeker of tricks. Then the king, after taking leave of the two, accompanied by his women, went away. Sambhūta, overcome by love, made a nidāna to this effect: "If there is any fruit of my severe penance, then may I become the husband of the woman-jewel in a future birth."
Citra said: "Do you desire this fruit of penance which confers emancipation? Do you make a foot-stool with a jewel suitable for the head? Give up this nidāna, made from delusion, now. Let her improper conduct be in vain. People like you are not deluded." Even though restrained in this way by Sadhu Citra, Sambhūta did not give up the nidäna. Alas! the desire for sense-objects is very strong. When their fasts were completed and destruction of age-karma had been achieved, they were born gods in the palace Sundara in Saudharma.
Life of Brahmadatta (104-600)
After it fell from the first heaven, Citra's soul became the son of a rich man in the city Purimȧtāla. Sambhūta's soul fell and descended into the womb of Queen Culani, the wife of King Brahman, in Kampilya. His future power indicated by the fourteen great dreams, her son was born, gold color, seven bows tall. King Brahman, who was immersed in the Absolute, as it were, from joy, gave him the name, famous throughout the world, Brahmadatta. He grew up, giving
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