Uttarajjhayana 197.1.1_6

197.1.1_6

U/21 samuddapālīyam ekaviṃśam adhyayanam /
campāe pālie nāma | sāvae āsi vāṇie /
mahāvīrassa bhagavao | sīse so u mahappaṇo ||1||

In Kampâ there lived a Srâvaka, the merchant Pâlita, 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 Pâlita was delivered of a child at sea; as the boy was born at sea (samudra), he was named Samudrapâla. (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, Rûpinî, 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)
Agitated by what he saw, Samudrapâla spoke thus: 'Of wicked actions this is the bad result.' (9)
He became enlightened at once, the venerable man, and he was immensely agitated; he took leave of his parents, and entered the state of houselessness. (10)