The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.s2.6

c7.s2.6

The god Sūriyābha pays homage to Mahāvīra who gives Goyama a description of his abode and his glory and then of his previous existence as King Paesi. Citta, his charioteer, brings him to Kesi, a disciple of Pārīva’s, who in a discource persuades him to become a layman. He is poisoned by his wife, Queen Dhāriṇī, who feels neglected by him, and he will be reborn as Daḍhapāinna (see Uvavāiya). The discourse mentioned concerns the existence of a soul different from the body. Kesī denies this to be so, but Paesi affirms it and, moreover, says that the soul is invisible and invariably of the size of the body it dwells in.