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

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________________ 110 The Eleventh Anga [ 1. Lect. 9. having done so they saying, "ha, ha, alas ! this is an evil. deed” and crying, weeping and sobbing they went to where king Púsanandi was and having done so they spoke to him thus : "Truly oh, lord ! queen Sirî has been, at an immature time, been deprived of life by queen Devadattā. Then that king Pûsanandi, having heard this news from those maid-servants and being greatly overcome by the grief for his mother, fell down on the ground with all his limbs like a champaka' tree cut off by an axe, prouding a “dhus, dhus' sound. Then that king Pûsanandi getting composed after a moment removed the dead body of queen Sirî, with great pomp and show, crying (3) in the company of many kings (here the rest to be supplied $8 5–6, down to friends (and so forth, down to) attendants, and having done so he, being greatly enraged (4), has ordered the queen Devadattā to be arrested and has got her to be brought to the gallows in that manner. Truly, in this way oh, Goyama ! queen Devadattā experiences (here the rest to be supplied § 13, down to) of acts done previously.” Then Goyama asked : “Oh, Venerable Sir ! where will queen Devadattā go having met with death here at the time of surcease ? Where will she be re-born ? Then the Samana replied: "Oh Goyama ! having lived her long life of eighty years and having met with death at the time of surcease, she will be re-born as a hell-being in

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