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can we give you, except "Dharmalabha "? It is said in the Purāņas, Protecting ascetics absorbed in contemplating the one supreme spirit, the king will have a sixth part of their merit." So, cease persecuting us, king. This action leads to misfortune, both in the city and realm always.'
When Kalkin hears this speech of the munis, he will certainly be angry, frowning, his face terrible, terrifying like Kṛtānta. The city-goddess will say to him, 'Basest of mortals, do you wish to die that you ask the munis for money?' Terrified by the speech of the goddess like an elephant by the roar of a lion, Kalkin will apologize to the sādhus with humility. Then there will by many terrifying portents daily, indicating the destruction of King Kalkin's city. The cloud will rain for seventeen days and nights and the stream of the Ganga, rising, will flood the city. There Acarya Pratipada some of the congregation, some of the people of the city, and Kalkin will stand on a dry mound. Many citizens and treasure will go at once with the Ganga's water advancing on all sides. When the calamity of water ends, King Kalkin will make again a new city with Nanda's money. There will be temples; the sadhus will wander; the cloud will rain at the right time, the cause of the grain's ripening. The people will not buy grain with a dramma even when taking a kumbha.256 It will be (a country) of good alms for fifty years, while Kalkin lives.
When his death is near, Kalkin will make all the heretics give up their outfits and will oppress them especially, After putting Pratipada with the congregation into a cow-compound, he, hard-hearted, will demand the sixth part of alms. The congregation will make kayotsarga for the propitiation of Sakra. Messenger-deities will say, 'Kalkin, this is not conducive to peace.' His throne shaken by the power of the congregation's kāyotsarga, Śakra will assume the form of an old Brahman and go there. Sakra will say to Kalkin
256 108. I. c. it will be so cheap.
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