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UTTARÂDHYAYANA.
TWENTY-FIRST LECTURE.
SAMUDRAPÂLA. In Kampâ there lived a Srâvaka, the merchant Pålita, who was a disciple of the noble and venerable Mahâvîra. (1)
As a Srâvaka he was well versed in the doctrines of the Nirgranthas. Once he went by boat to the town of Pihunda on business. (2)
A merchant gave him his daughter while he was doing business in Pihunda. When she was big with child, he took her with him on his returning home. (3)
Now the wife of Pålita was delivered of a child at sea; as the boy was born at sea (samudra), he was named Samudra pâla. (4)
Our merchant, the Srâvaka, went leisurely to Kampâ, to his house; in his house the boy grew up surrounded by comfort. (5)
He studied the seventy-two arts, and acquired knowledge of the world?; he was in the bloom of youth, and had a fine figure and good looks. (6)
His father procured him a beautiful wife, Rūpini, with whom he amused himself in his pleasant palace, like a Dôgundaga god? (7)
Once upon a time he saw from the window of his palace a man sentenced to death, dressed for execution, on his way to the place of execution. (8)
* To render nîtikôvida. ? For Dôgundaga, see above, p. 88, note 2.
