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[15] ELAICHI KUMAR (One who sees fault in himself)

(1) Once a Brahmin and his wife renounced the world and
became Jain monks. His wife kept her body and clothes clean
and felt proud of her caste. (2) As a fruit of being a Jain monk
both became deities of heaven. (3) In their third birth they
became a Prince Elaichi Kumar and a dancer respectively. One
day, watching the Girl dancing, Elaichi got attracted to her. His
parents and relatives tried to explain him but he left with her &
learnt dancing. (4) In another city, the lady dancer and Elaichi
Kumar performed a dance on a rope before the King, Queen &
many other people of the city. They kept dancing expecting
money from the King. But the King got attracted to the girl
dancer and thought, if Elaichi Kumar falls off the rope and die, so
that he could have girl dancer. (5) While dancing on the rope,
Elaichi Kumar saw a very serene & composed Jain monk
receiving food from a beautiful girl but monk refrained from even
looking at the girl. Elaichi Kumar felt ashamed of himself and
started hating on his longing for lust. He admired the calm
composure of this monk & attained Supreme Knowledge (Kewal
Gyan). He gave sermons.The girl dancer hearing about her
previous birth, she hated her beauty that brings disaster. King &
his Queen also repented their desire for worldly pleasures. All
attained Keval Gyan.
KING MUNJ (Female Voluptuousness)
(1) King Munj was under the fear that Bhoj would take his
kingdom and so ordered to kill Bhoj. On reading the Shlok
written by Bhoj about uncertainty of kingdoms and its mortality,
King Munj gives the Kingdom to Bhoj. (2) Defeated in war
against Telang, Munj became a prisoner and gets attracted to
Telang’s sister Mrinalwati. (3) Bhoj made a tunnel to the prison
and asked King Munj to escape through it. (4) Munj told his
beloved Mrinalwati about his escape. She went and informed her
brother King immediately. To punish him the King put fetters
around his hands & legs and gave him orders to beg for food.
Munj shouts and tells people so that they realize the result of
craving for lust and women. Munj had to face such hardships
and beg for food.