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

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________________ STORIES OF RAUHINEYA AND OTHERS * 301 will be worshipped by heretics. Saying, This is an Aditya named Bhāyala Svāmin," they will set up outside a duplicate of it. Then the whole people, saying, "O Surya, Bhāyala Svāmin," will perform a pūjā. Even deceit well arranged is not fruitless.' Bhāyala replied: Alas! I am wicked. Shame on me. A calamity has happened; that is a sin committed by me, that the statue of the god of gods will be worshipped by the wicked by means of a duplicate which they made and called an Aditya by my name.' Dharaṇa replied: 'Do not grieve. What difference does it make sinless one? For this is an amusement practiced by the time of duḥṣamā.' Then Bhāyala was at once set down in the same place by the Nagakumāras who conducted him by the same path, like one who had seen a dream. 66 Fight between Udayana and Pradyota (560-606) Now, in the city Vitabhaya, King Udayana, devoted to daily rites, went to the temple at daybreak. In the front of the temple Udayana saw the statue with withered wreaths and thought: This is not the statue, but some other. Flowers that have been put in it look the next day as if they had just been gathered. Alas, what is this? The slave Devadattā, who always stood here glued to the pillar like a puppet, is not seen, as if she were hidden. The ichor of the elephants has disappeared like a desert stream of water in the hot season.230 Therefore, it is certain that Anilavega, a scent-elephant, has come. Certainly King Pradyota has come like a thief in the night with Anilavega and taken the statue and Devadattā.' Udayana started at once with an army in pursuit of Pradyota, making the earth resound with the hooves of horses like another drum of victory. Ten crowned kings followed him and the eleven shone like the powerful Rudras.231 And Jain Education International 230 564. The presence of a superior elephant makes the mada of others dry up. 231 567. There were 11 Rudras, gods of destruction. For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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