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CHAPTER ELEVEN people, Rauhiņeya, believing, attached himself to the Jina. Then King Sreņika, performed the ceremony of going out (into homelessness), and Rauhiņeya took the vow of mendicancy at the feet of Sri Vira. Beginning with a one-day fast, for six months he performed wonderful penance for the destruction of karma. Emaciated by penance and having accomplished complete destruction of the passions, 204 he bade farewell to Sri Vira and performed pāda popagama 205 on the mountain. With pure meditation, remembering the namaskriyā206 to the five spiritual dignitaries, Muni Rauhineya abandoned his body and went to heaven.
Contest between Pradyota and Abhaya (111–293)
Then the Blessed One, surrounded by gods to the number of a crore of least, wandered as a mendicant to destroy tirthakýt-karma. By teaching dharma, the Master converted some as laymen and some as sādhus, including the king and minister. Now, King Sreņika in the city Rājagļha practiced right-belief, and governed his city with complete observance of law.
One day, King Caņdapradyota set out from the city Ujjayini with complete equipment to besiege the city Rājagsha. Pradyota and fourteen other crowned kings, coming there, were looked upon by the people as Paramadhārmikas.
King Śreņika learned from spies that he was coming, splitting open the earth, as it were, with horses capering skilfully. He reflected a while, “How is this cruel Pradyota, who is making an attack here like a cruel crocodile, to be deprived of his strength ?” Then the king looked with
204 109. Bhāvasaṁlekhanā. See I, p. 357.
205 109. One of the 17 kinds of death and one of the 3 by fasting. The person remains motionless like a tree, falls like a tree. For a full discussion see I, n. 126.
206 110. The formula of homage to the Five: Homage to the Arhats, Siddhas, ācāryas, teachers, and all the sådhus in the world. I, n. 71.
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