Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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hell. Ascending (from that), she will be the wife of an outcaste. Killed by a co-wife cutting her throat, because she was pregnant, she will enter an animal-birth, after she has gone to the third hell. She will experience endless pain of existence of this sort from the crime of giving poison to your son who had right-belief."
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The king said: Blessed One, the one for whose sake she did this, her son, remains here. She alone has gone to hell. Shame on that! This worldly existence is cruel with love, hate, et cetera. I shall undertake mendicancy, a means for abandoning it.
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Sumitra bowed to the king: "Shame on me, the cause of the acquisition of such karma 19 by my mother. Master, permit me to become a mendicant now. Who would wish to dwell in such exceedingly cruel worldly existence?" The king restrained by his command his son speaking so, installed him in the kingdom, and took the vow himself. Then Rși Sugriva went away with the omniscient; and Sumitra went with Citragati to his own city. He gave some villages to Padma, Bhadra's son, but he, evil-minded, was not satisfied with these and slipped off somewhere.
One day Citragati, eagerly desired by his father, took leave of Sumitra with difficulty and went to his own city. Always occupied with pūjās to the gods,20 attendance on gurus, penance, study, and self-restraint, he delighted his father exceedingly.
Now, Kamala, brother of Ratnavati, son of Anangasinha, abducted Sumitra's sister, the wife of the King of Kalinga. Then his friend Citragati learned from the lips of a Khecara that Sumitra was afflicted by grief over his sister's abduction. "I shall search for your sister and bring her back soon. Consoling him thus, Citragati started with Khecaras to rescue the sister. He received the report, She was abducted by
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19 190. Bandhakarma. See I, p. 450.
20 196. Cf. III, n. 28 for these duties, which are really six. Liberality (dāna) is omitted here.
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