Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v1.c5.300
Prakrit Proper Names (Āgamic Index I) v1.c5.300
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2 Ajvasena King of kosambi Dhāriṇī(13) was his wife H had no son of his own but had adopted that of Dhāriṇī(26) The story is as follows Pjjota king of Ujjin had two sons Pāla (2) and G palaa P lan aga had two sons Avamtivaddhana and Rajjavaddhana The name of the wife of Rajjavaddhana was Dha in (6) and their son was Avamt sena King A amti addhana killed his young brother Rajjavaddhana to subjugate his wife Dh riṇī on being bewildered by her beauty To protect her character Dhāriṇī fled to Kosambi and became a nun The fact that she was pregnant at that time was not disclosed to any one In due course she gave birth to a son who was abandoned in an isolated place King Ajvasena who had no son saw the child lying there lifted and took it to his palace He adopted it as his own The boy was named Manippabha(1) He became the king of Kosambi and A amtsena that of Ujjeni Later on the latter attacked the former and there was a fight between the two Nun Dhāriṇī the mother of both of them revealed the truth to them that they were real brother Then they stopped fighting and made a treaty