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CHAPTER THIRTEEN seated on his lion-throne in the assembly, “Why have you shut up these sādhus ?' Kalkin will say to Sakra: ‘They live in my city, but they do not give me a tax, the sixth part of their alms, look you ! All the heretics paid me the tax, but not these. For that reason they are shut up in the compound, like a bad cow, to be milked by force.' Sakra will say: “ These have nothing. They will never give a part of alms to any one. Are you not ashamed, demanding a part of their alms from begging monks ? Let them go. Otherwise, you will have a great misfortune in future.' .
Angry at this speech Kalkin will say, 'Here, soldiers ! Take this Brāhman by the neck and throw him out at once.' At this speech Pākaśāsana will at once reduce Kalkin-a mountain of baseness—to a heap of ashes by a blow from his open hand. Having completed a life of eighty-six years, King Kalkin will become a hell-inhabitant in a hell which has no end.
Sakra will go away, after instructing Kalkin's son, Datta, in the religion of the Arhats and installing him on the throne, having paid homage to the congregation. Remembering the terrifying consequences of his father's sin and Sakra's teaching, Datta will make the earth adorned with temples of the Arhats. Henceforth, up to the end of the fifth spoke, there will be constant advance of the religion of the Arhats. In the time of the Arhats this Bharatakşetra, covered with villages, mines, and cities, laden with wealth and grain, was like heaven. Villages were like towns; towns were equal to heaven; householders were equal to kings; kings resembled Kubera. Teachers were equal to the moon-god; parents were equal to divinities; mothers-in-law to mothers; fathersin-law to fathers.
Then the people were devoted to truth and purity, knowing right and wrong, attached to good breeding, worshippers of honored gurus; satisfied with their own wives. Science, learning, morals, and also the family thrive. There was no fear of a hostile army, plague, robbers, and there was
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