Book Title: Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6
Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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________________ HERESY OF JAMALI, DEATH OF GOSALA King Candapradyota did everything just as she said, quickly. What does a man, bewitched by the snare of hope, not do? Knowing that the city could stand a siege, clever Mrgavati stayed and, after closing the gates, mounted soldiers on the wall. King Candapradyota besieged the city on all sides, feeling extreme embarrassment like a monkey that has missed its jump.175 One day, Mṛgāvati, with disgust with the world rising, thought, "If the Blessed Vira comes, then I shall take initiation." Knowing this decision of hers, the Supreme Lord came very soon with a retinue of gods and asuras. When Mṛgavati heard that the Arhat had a samavasaraṇa outside, she opened the gates fearlessly and went there with great magnificence. After paying homage to the Lord of the World, she remained in the proper place. Pradyota also came there, paid homage, and sat down, his hostility abandoned. Lord Śrī Vira delivered a sermon in a speech extending for a yojana and adapted to every dialect. Having heard from the people, He is omniscient," a certain man, an archer, standing near, mentally asked the Teacher of the World about a doubt. The Lord of the World said to him, "Tell your doubt in words, that other souls capable of emancipation may be enlightened." This being said, he, embarrassed, unable to speak clearly, said, "Blessed One, who-she-she-she-" in a few syllables. The Master replied briefly, "It is so." Gautama asked, "Master, what is this speech, Who-she-she-she'?" C 203 66 Jain Education International Story of the goldsmith and his five hundred wives (192-229) Then the Blessed One informed them: "In the city Campā in this same Bharata in the past there was a lustful goldsmith. Any beautiful maid whom he saw, as he moved about on the earth, he married, after giving her five hundred 175 182. For the seriousness of a monkey's falling, Cf. I, p. 329 and III, p. 341. For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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