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VIVAGASUYA
6. There lived in the town of Mathura a king Siridāma by name. His son was called Nandivaddhana or Nandisena. The king had in his service a barber, Citta by name, who was his trusted friend and had free access to every place in the royal household. One day prince Nandivaddhaṇa called the barber and asked him to thrust a razor-blade in the neck of the king, for doing which he promised the barber half the share of the kingdom. The barber was terrified of the consequences of such a deed on his part, and communicated to the king the intention of his son to kill his father. The king got angry and ordered his son's execution. Indrabhūti saw him in that plight and asked his Master who this Nandisena was and what he did in his previous life to deserve this fate. Mahavira thereupon said (§ 114-118, 123-125):
There lived in the town of Sibapura a king Siharaha by name. He appointed Dujjohana as his jailor who kept in the jail a large number of implements for torturing the convicts. He tortured offenders in various ways, and, as a result of his wicked deeds, was born in the six h hell (§ 119122). Mahavira said further that the soul of Nandisepa would migrate as Ujjhiyaa did and finally attain liberation (§ 126).
7. There lived in the town of Padalisanda a merchant, Sagaradatta by name. His wife Gangadatta lost all her children in their childhood. She was in a depressed mood on this account, and once asked her husband's permission to seek the favour of a neighbouring Yakṣa, Umbaradatta, to have a son. She worshipped the image of the Yaksa, promised several presents to the deity if she got a son
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