Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c3.s2.t2.41
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c3.s2.t2.41
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³ It is interesting to note that the cause of renunciation is different in the Jaina version. Both the Jātaka and the Jaina versions have the four Gāthās spoken by the four kings but while the Jātaka is reticent about the respective names of the kings, the Jaina story gives them and, as such, may be taken as more correctly informed. According to the latter, Domuha renounced the world when he beheld the banner of Indra fall down. See Hindu Tales, p. 144.