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child under a cart and then brought it back, probably on aovount of a superstition that such a child had long life. The boy was named Sagada, Sk. Sakata, whom the parents brought up with care. Once the merchant Subhadda went on a voyage and died in a shipwreok. His neighbours took away all his belongings. Bhaddā, on hearing the news of her husband's death and the loss of her fortune, died of broken heart. The boy Sagada was turned out of his house, fell in bad company and lived with a courtesan named Sudsrisapā who was a kept mistress of Susena, the king's minister. The minister turned him out, but he visited the courtesan secretly. When his visits became known to Susena, he got angry, caught him and brought him before the king who ordered his execution by making him embrace tbe red-hot image of a woman. Indrabhūti saw him being led to the place of execution, asked his Master who he was and what he did in his past life to deserve such punishment. Thereupon Mahāvīra said ( 8 87-92, 95–98);
There lived in the town of Chagalapura & shepherd named Chaniya. He had animals in hundreds and thousands in his pen as also several men to tend them. He used to kill many of these animals every day, make dishes of the meat and sell them to the public, and himself enjoyed the same. As a result of this wicked act, he was born, in his next birth, in the fourth hell, and after that as Sagada ( 8 93-94). Mabāvīra continued further that Sagada and Sudarisapā would be born as twins and would be named, Sudarisaņa and Sudarisaņā in the Mātanga family. Sudarisana would love his sister in that birth, and they would
