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

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________________ HOP HERESY OF JAMALI, DEATH OF GOSALA staying in a certain stronghold, practiced thieving together. The goldsmith was born in an animal-status, but his wife who died first, after being born an animal, became a son in a Brahman family. After five years had passed, the goldsmith was born from his animal status into that family as a sister of the same boy. The boy was made her caretaker by the parents and she, while he was taking care of her, cried because of excessive badness. One day when he was touching her stomach, he happened to touch her pundenda and she stopped crying. Having learned this remedy for her crying, the boy touched that place in the same way whenever she cried. One day when he was doing this he was discovered by the parents who punished him. Banished from his house he went to a mountain-cave. He went to the village where the four hundred and ninety-nine thieves lived and joined the thieves. His sister, even before she was grown, was unchaste. Roaming about as she liked, she went one day to a certain village. At that very time the village was looted by the robbers who came; and the girl was captured and made their wife by them all. One day the thieves thought, 'This wretched girl will soon die from service to us all.' And with this idea they brought another woman. From jealousy the first wife searches for her weak points. One day the thieves went away to steal and she, having hit on the trick, led her co-wife to a well by some device. She said, 'Lady, what is here inside the well? Look at it.' She, naïve, began to look and was pushed inside by the first wife. The robbers returned and asked her, Where is she?' She said: How do I know? Do you not guard your wife? They knew that she had killed the miserable woman from jealousy. 205 6 Jain Education International Then the Brahman reflected, Is this unchaste woman my sister?' Having heard from the people, 'The Omniscient has come here,' he came here and first asked in his mind from shame at his sister's unchastity. Told by me, For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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