Book Title: Vivagsuyam
Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Gurjar Granth Ratna Karyalay

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________________ 64 The. Eleventh Anga [ I. Lect. 2. Susena, being permitted by king Mahachanda, has thus ordered the boy Sagada and the courtesan Sudarisanā to be brought to the place of execution. Truly, in this way oh, Goyama ! the boy Sagada experiences the fruits of acts done previously." 23. Then Goyama asked : “Oh, Venerable Sir! where will the boy Sagada go after his death? Where will he be l'e-born ?" Then the Samana answered : "Oh, Goyama ! having completed his long life of fifty seven years the boy Sagada, being made to embrace an iron statue of a woman strongly heated and hence become just like a burning fire at the time when one third part of this very day will still remain to pass, will after his death at the time of surcease, be re-born as a hell-being in the region of Rayanappabhā. Then having afterwards come out from it he will be re-born as a twin in the family of a Mātanga--a low-caste in the city of Rāyagiha. Then the parents of that boy after his completing the twelfth day after his birth will give him this name of the following description true to its sense : “Let our son be Sagada by name and our daughter Sudarisanā' by name.' Then that boy Sagada having completed his boyhood will attain tu. youth; and that daughter Sudarisanā having completed her girlhood will attain to youth and will be possessed of excellence and an exquisite body on account of being endowed with form,

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