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CHAPTER TWO Jina, and listened to a sermøn he delivered. At the end of the sermon, his hands folded in obeisance, he said to the Blessed One:
“Master, favor me by giving me the long-desired vow. Though I have acquired another good sādhu as guru because of merit, I have especial merit since you have come here as guru. 1, wishing initiation, have installed my son on the throne now. I am ready for your favor characterized by giving mendicancy."
The master himself at once initiated him saying this. He studied a section of the scriptures and practiced severe penance. Wandering alone by his guru's permission, observing the pratimā-posture, his body emaciated by penance, the great sage wandered in cities, et cetera. By unbroken principal vows and firm lesser vows, the muni acquired in course of time the magic art of going-through-the-air, as if he had wings. One day flying up, the yati went to the province Sukaçcha, like another sun in the sky from his excessive brilliance from penance.
Sixth incarnation of Kamatha (179–196) The serpent, after wandering through births after hell, was born in that very place in a great forest on Mt. Jvalana as a Bhilla, named Kurangaka. When he had grown up, he roamed daily in the forest with a strung bow, killing creatures for a livelihood. In his wandering Vajranābha reached that same forest inhabited by wild animals like soldiers of Antaka (Death). Unterrified by the cruel animals, female yaks, et cetera, the great sage went to Mt. Jvalana. Just then the sun set. From the habit of staying wherever he was when the sun set, he stayed in a cave of Mt. Jvalana in kāyotsarga, like a new peak of the mountain. Darkness spread over the directions, like a flock of flesh-eaters that had arisen. Owls with their hoots sounded like sporting birds of Death. Wolves howled aloud like singers belonging to Rakşases; tigers wandered, striking the ground with their tails like a drum
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