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CHAPTER TWO with poison. The muni thought: “Surely this serpent is conferring great benefits on me for the destruction of karma; he is not causing injuries in the least. Even if I lived for a long time, the destruction of karma must be made by me. Now it has been made by him. My purpose is accomplished in any case."
Meditating in this way, he made confession, begged forgiveness from all the world, recalling the homage to the Five, engaged in pious meditation, and observed a fast.
Fifth incarnation (147-148)
After death he became a chief-god in the palace Jambūdrumāvarta in the twelfth heaven, with a life of twenty-two sāgaras. Always sunk in pleasure there, brilliant with many kinds of magnificence, attended by gods, he passed the time.
Fifth incarnation of Kamasha (149–150) The serpent, roaming on Mt. Hema's slope, was burned by a forest-fire and was born in the hell Dhūmaprabhā, with a life-term of seventeen sagaras. With a body of one hundred and twenty-five bows, he experienced there the sharp pains of hell, deprived of an atom of comfort.
Sixth incarnation as Vajranābha (151-194) Now in this Jambūdvīpa in the province Sugandha, the ornament of West Videha, there is a fine city, Subhankara by name. The king there, named Vajravīrya, whose strength was irresistible, was like Indra in person, pious, the chief of the rulers of the earth. He had a chief-queen, Laksmīvati by name, like another Lakşmi in form, who had attained the ornamentship of the earth.
Kiraņavega's soul fell from Acyuta when its life-term had been completed, and descended into Lakşmivati's womb, like a hansa into a pool. At the right time she bore a son possessing a pure form, an ornament of the earth, named
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