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[24] VAJRA
(Propagator of Jainism)

(1) Dhangiri left his pregnant wife to renounced the world and
became a Jain Monk. (2) When the child was born, he heard
about his father’s renouncement, which made him recollect
his previous birth. He kept troubling his mother by weeping
all the time, so that his mother is fed up of him and will easily
let him renounce world. (3) Sick of her crying son, the
mother donated him to monk Dhangiriji who gave him to
nuns (Sadhvijis) for upbringing. (4) The son carefully
listened to the Agam Granthas (Book of Jain scripts) from the
nuns and learnt the eleven (Angas) in the cradle. (5) After
finding that the child is calm and happy, the mother came
back to the Dhannaji to take her son back. (6) When
Dhannaji declined to return the son to the mother, she
complaint to the King. The King asked to fetch the child and
let child decide with whom he wants to stay. The child went
to Dhangiriji. Seeing this Dhangiriji immediately gave Diksha
(Renouncement of World) to his son who was named Vajra
Swami. (7) In a drought prone area, Vajra Swami carried his
community of people (monks and religious men and women)
to a prosperous land through the sky. (8) There, the people
against the Jain religion did not permit the Jains to offer
flowers for worship of God. Vajra Swami brought millions of
flowers from sky and thus spread the praise and fame of
Jainism. (9) When Vajra Swami realized that his death was
near, he went to Mount Rathavarta and fasted there with
meditation for a month and went to heaven.