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PREVIOUS BIRTHS OF PĀRSVANATHA 369 with drum-sticks. Witches in various forms, female demons, female Vyantaras, by whom cries of " kila! kila!” were made, met at that time by agreement. The Blessed One, motionless, remained at that same time and in that same place very terrifying by nature, fearless as if he were in a garden. As he was practicing meditation, the night passed and the light of the sun appeared, like the light of his penance. Then the muni set out to wander over the earth whose creatures had gone from the touch of the sun's rays, his gaze fixed at the distance of six feet.
Just then the hunter Kurangaka came forth, cruel as a tiger, wearing a tiger-skin, carrying a bow and quiver. Then he saw muni Vajranābha approaching and he became exceedingly angry, thinking, “ This ascetic is a bad omen.” Angry because of the hostility of previous births, his bow drawn at a distance, Kurangaka struck down the great sage like a deer. Reciting, “ Homage to the Arhats,” he sat down, after brushing off the surface of the ground, free from painful meditation, though he was wounded by the blow. After confessing fully to the Siddhas, he undertook a fast, asked pardon of everyone, being especially free from attachment.
Seventh incarnation (195)
Engaged in pious meditation he died and became a god of the highest magnificence, named Lalitānga, in the middle Graiveyaka.
Seventh incarnation of Kamatha (196–197) After seeing him dead from one blow, feeling pride, Kurangaka rejoiced at the thought, “I am a great bowman.” After living from hunting from birth, Kurangaka died and was born in the abode Raurava in the seventh hell.
Eighth incarnation as Suvarnabāhu (198–309) Now, in this Jambūdvipa in the East Videhas there is a broad city, Purāņapura, resembling a city of the gods,
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