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THE KATHAKOÇA;
OR,
TREASURY OF STORIES.
OM! Honour to him who is free from passion !
Hateful calamities flee afar, Successes suddenly establish themselves, Glories adorn dwellings
Through worship paid to the spiritual father of the world. First a story concerning the worship of him who is free
from passion. STORY CONCERNING THE Once on a time * in the WORSHIP OF THE JINA.
Cankhapura there was a king named Crícankha; in that city dwelt a merchant named Dhanada. He was very rich and had four sons. One day that merchant, reflecting that fortune is fickle, caused to be made a temple in honour of him who is free from passion, and established there an image with great rejoicing. Subsequently, owing to impeding works in a former birth, he lost all his property. Through excessive poverty he abandoned that town, and took up his abode in a village near it, and spent some time living on what his sons gained by going backwards and forwards between the city and the village. Then, a great occasion having arrived, on a day of the moon's change coming once in four months, t Dhanada
* Instead of once on a time,' c. has 'In this Jambúdvípa in Bharatakshetra.'
† Atmárám Muni informs me that these days are the day of the full moon of the white fortnight in Phálguna, Ashadha, and Kartika.
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