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CHAPTER TWELVE the kingdom to Keśin, treating it like a royal debt. What discernment is this of my father, that he gives the kingdom to Kesin, his sister's son, who is fit for prison? My father is my lord. Let him do whatever he wishes at his fancy. How shall I do service now to Kesin? For I am his son.'
With this idea, humiliated by his father, he will go to Kūņika. For the proud, a foreign country is better in case of disaster. Being treated with dignity always by Kūņika, his mother's sister's son, he will remain there happily. A worshipper of ascetics, knowing fully the principles of jiva, ajiva, 240 et cetera, Abhici will observe fittingly a layman's duties. Observing a householder's duties unbroken for many years, recalling his humiliation, he will not give up hostility to Udāyana. After making samlekhanã with all rites by a fast of a fortnight, not confessing his hostility to his father, after death he will become a chief Asura. After completing a life of a palyopama in that, Abhici's soul, arising in the Mahāvidehas, will attain emancipation.”
Kumārapāla (36-96) Abhaya asks, “When will the statue of the Supreme Lord consecrated by Kapila come to light?” The Master said: “On the border of Saurāṣtra, Lāța, and Gurjara, in the course of time there will be a city named Aņahilapāțaka. The crest-jewel of the Aryan country, the abode of the illustrious, with the religion of the Arhats as its only umbrella, it will become a tirtha. In the shrines there the statues of the Arhats, made of jewels, spotless, will bring to truth the story of the statues in Nandiśvara, et cetera. It will shine with shrines whose tops are adorned with rows of bright golden pitchers like suns at rest. All the people there, generally worshippers of ascetics, sharing in hospitality, will strive for happiness. Unenvious of others' prosperity,
340 32. Soul, non-soul: the first 2 categories of the 9 Tattvas. See I. App. IV.
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