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CHAPTER EIGHT
Sumangala will get up and again stand in kayotsarga. Employing clairvoyance and knowing his (the king's former) births, he will say:
'O villain! You are not Devasena nor Vimalavāhana. Remember! You are the wretched Gośāla, the son of the Mańkha Mankhali, you by whom your teacher in religion, the last Tirthakṛt, was injured. At that time you, arrogant, burned two disciples of his. I shall not pardon you as you were pardoned then by them, benevolent. If you do that again, then I shall consume you instantly.'
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This being said by him, Mahāpadma, blazing up intensely like a fire sprinkled with ghi, will knock over Sumangala again. Withdrawing seven or eight paces, the muni will consume Mahāpadma with his horses, chariot, and charioteer by his hot flash. Having confessed that deed and having observed the vow for a long time, at the end, after fasting for a month, the muni will go to Sarvartha. Falling at the end of a life-term of thirty-three sagaras and being born in the Mahāvidehas, he will attain emancipation by initiation.
When Mahāpadma has been consumed, he will go to the seventh hell. In course of time he will be born twice in all the hells. He will be born again and again in all the genera of animals and he will die in every case killed by a weapon and injured by burning. After wandering through painful births in this way for an endless time, he will be born as a courtesan outside the city Rajagṛha. She will be killed in her sleep by a lover greedy for her ornaments. Having become a courtesan again in Rajagṛha, she will die. He will become a Brahman's daughter in the hamlet Ubhela at the foot of the Vindhya and will marry a Brahman. She, pregnant, will be burned by a forest-fire on the road as she is coming from her father-in-law's house and will be born among the Agnikumāra-gods.
Then he will be a human and will take initiation and, breaking his ascetic's vows, will be born in the Asuras. Obtaining human births again and again, breaking his vow
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