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The Last Five Upangas [ II. Lect. 2.
Second Lecture. The Story of Mahāpauma.
74 Jambî asked : “ If, O Reverued Sir, this has been expounded as the purport of the second section called Kappavadinsiyi by the Ascetic, the blessed Mahīvira ( and so forth, down to ) who has obtaind emancipation, what then, O Reverened Sir, has been expounded as the purport of the second lecture ?” Then Mahilvira answered: "Truly, in this way, O Jambû !"
75. At that time and at that period there was a city named Champi, a temple named Punnabhadda, a king named Kaniya, who had a queen named Paumilyal. In that city of Champã, there was a queen named Sukâlî, the wife of king Seniya and the stepmother of king Kiniya. That Sukalî had a son named prince Sukilla. That prince Sukala had a queen named Mahã paumã who was very delicate.
76 Now at a certain time, that queen Mahāpaumã, having seen a dream in the house of such a description (and everything else is to be reproduced here exactly as in the case of Kala substituting Mahāpuma for Kala,
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