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The Eleventh Anga
[ I. Lect. 3.
the eggs of the female hens which were baked, roasted and fried. Then that Ninnaa, the dealer in eggs, whose actions were of this type (4) having accumulated great sin and having completed his long life of one thousand years and. having met with death at the time of surcease, was re-born as a hell-being in the third region among the hells the maximum duration of life where is said to be seven Sagarovamas.
18. Then, having afterwards come out from that he was re-born as the son of Vijaya, the leader of thieves, ia the womb of his wife Khandasiri, in Sālā, the forest-settlement of thieves. Then at a certain time, when full three months of her pregnancy had passed, this pregnancydesire of the following description arose in the mind of that Khandasiri, the wife of the leader of thieves : "Blessed indeed, are those mothers who pass their time by tasting and eating abundant food, drinks, articles of eating, articles of taste and wine, having taken their baths, having offered oblations (here the rest to be supplied, down to) having made amendments, having decorated themselves with all kinds of ornaments and being surrounded by many friends, caste-fellows, one's own near relatives, kinsmen, acquaintances, attendants and women, and many other wives (lit. women) of thieves, and who, after having taken their meals and after having come to the hall after meals to eat bettle-nuts
