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

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________________ § 34. ] Vivāgasuyam. 135 period there was a city named Sāyaya, a park named Uttarakuru, a demigod named Pāsamiya, a king named Mittanandî who had a queen named Sirikantā and they had a prince nained Varadatta who had five hundred queens such as Varasenā and others, the arrival of the Tîrthankara, the acceptance of the religious duty of a Săvaga--a layman, asking of the previous birth of Varadatta by Goyamsumî, the deciding of the human birth, and the expounding of the previous birih by Maharira viz. that he was a king named Vimalavāhan in the city of Satadu vāra and he saw a houseless monk named Dhaminaruchi coming to him and having done so he made him accept the alms, his human birth was, therefore, decided and he was born here as Varadatta. [ Here the rest is to be supplied exactly as in the case of Subāhu incluving the occurring of the thought, down to the acceptance of monkhood, then his being born from one heaven to another ( and so forth, down to ) his going to Savatthasiddha heaven, then in Mahāvideha as in the case of Dadhapainna ( and so for!h, down to ) will be liberated, will get enlightenment, will get perfect bliss and will put an end to all miseri es. In this way, oh, Jambii ! the Samana, the blessed Mahā vira, who has obtained emancipation, has expounded this as the purport of the Tenth Lecture of the Second Book called “The Fruits of Good Acts.” Then Jambû said : “ Reverend Sir !

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