Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t1.92

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A number of monks are mentioned who fell into the snares of women. We have already seen how the monk Rahanemi fell in love with Rājimati and courted her Then the monk Sambhūya, who, being touched by the hair of the queen Sunandā lost his self-control and resolved to be born as a cakravartin in the next birth as a reward of his penance.⁵⁴ A similar story is told about the monk Addaya who gave up asceticism and married a merchant's daughter After his wife gave birth to two sons, Addaya asked her permission to resume his wandering career But at this time his wife was spinning When her child asked her mother what she was doing, she replied that as his father wanted to become an ascetic, she was spinning in order to support her family Then the child tied his father with twelve rounds of a cord and listening his child's request Addaya remained in the house for a further period of twelve years 55 Then we read of the monk Āsādhabūi, who, inspite of his teacher's warning, abandoned his ascetic life and married the two daughters of Viśvakmā, an acrobat of Rāyagiha 56