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[ 78. 8. should thus be called a brother. So I shall then ask him what high object is behind this.” He asked, “Oh, who are you, so dear to me like As’okadatta ?” The god said, “I am the very As'okadatta in another form." The other said, “What is the proof !” The god said, "For the purpose of your and my enlightenment the pair of earrings was deposited on the Vaitādhya mountain. I shall show it to you. What other proof then this is needed ?” He agreed. Then [78] assuming the celestial form he led Arabadatta to the Vaitādhya mountain and showed him the pair of earrings Ratnāvatansaka on the peak Siddhayatana. Having seen it, on account of the strangeness of the consequnce of actions, he remembered his past life. He was awakened to knowledge. He took to renunciation in real spirit. The god pardoned him and went away.
Of them, I, O Dharana, am the son of the chaplain. Now such an idea does not come to the violators of right belief, knowledge and conduct, who have not studied the fundaments of the highest good; and it is not that it does not bring about the religious per
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