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"Sir! Whose kingdom is this"?
Prasenajit - "This is mine". Dhananjaya - "How far is Srāvastī from here"? Prasenajit - 'Only seven yojanas ".
Dhananjaya - "Sir! If you kindly permit me to submit, the big cities are usually very congested places. I maintain a fairly large household. So if you kindly permit, I would like to settle at this place".
The king agreed. A township came up there within a short time. The king bestowed that town and 14 other villages on Dhananjaya. As Dhananjaya had spent a night (sayan, there in the company of the king, his town came to be called Sāketa (23).
At Strāvasti, there lived a śreșthi named Mrgāra. He had a son named Pūrņavardhana. When he grew up to - his youth, preparations were made for setting him in marr: iage. Sresthi Mrgăra sent out matchmakers in all directions in the capital to look for a suitable bride for his son, but they did not find a suitable girl in the whole of Srāvasti whom Mrgāra could accept as his daughter-inlaw. So the matchmakers came to Saketa. Visakhā was at that time celebrating a festival in the company of 500 girls on the bank of a big tank. These matchmakers who had passed through the lanes and bylanes of Sāketa but did not find a suitable girl came out of the city and held consultations about their next plan. Suddenly there started a heavy shower. Five hundred girls who accompanied Visākhā were in a great confusion. They ran towards a shed at the speed they could command and took shelter therein. Standing at a short distance, the matchmakers observed all these girls, but none was suitable for their purpose. Visakhā was the last to reach the shed and she came at a gentle pace. When the matchmakers saw her, they were at once impressed by her gaiety and grace. But they thought that in the selection of a bride, physical grace should not be the only consideration, and that a still more important thing was to make sure that the girl was sweet tongued. So with a view to open conversation with her, they said,
| SR No. | 022804 |
| Book Title | Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nagaraj Muni |
| Publisher | Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers |
| Publication Year | 1986 |
| Total Pages | 804 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 19 MB |