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her husband, Dhanna. So Dhanna asked her, “Why are you crying?" She said, “My brother Shalibhadra is going to be a monk. He is leaving his wives one by one to take to monkhood."
Dhanna laughed at this news and remarked, “It is silly to act like this. If you feel indifferent to the world, you must give it up immediately."
Hearing this, his wife Subhadra was shocked. She thought her husband was an ordinary person. So she bawled out, “My dear, it is easier said than done. Can you renounce it?"
Immediately, her husband responded with a “Yes” and left the home in no time. Nothing could stop him from his decision.
Subhadra swooned and fell down on the road which Dhanna had taken. All her requests, entreaties, apologies and tears bore no result.
Shalibhadra came to know about the renunciation of his brother-in-law and he too took the way of monkhood.
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