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[Full title: Didactic stories; (A) Religious cum Moral Stories; (21) Muni Sanjayanta鈥檚 torture at the hands of Vidyadhara Vidyutdamstra]

While enumerating the names of the kings of the Vidyadhara Vamsa. Gautama relates the following episode illustrating the consequences of torturing a muni (5,20-26). Once Vidyutdamstra (Vijjudadha), the Vidyadhara lord of the Vijayardha mountain kidnapped muni Snjayanta who was meditating

160 A CRITICAL STUDY OF PAUMACARIYAM at Aparavideha and carried him to the Pancasangamaya hill. There he tortured him by pelting stones at him. The monk did not attained Kevala. On get disturbed at all and that occasion seized off the Dharanendra paid his obeisance to the monk and supernatural lores of the king. When the king apologised, Dharanendra restored the 'vidyas' to him. f The Paumacariya (5. 25-84) agrees with the above account. The Vasudevahindi (I. p. 251) gives additionally the names of the parents of Sanjayanta as Sanjaya and Satyasri of Vitasokanagara in the Aparavideha. It further states that the monk was alleged to be the cause of a calamity, hence Vidyutdamstra ordered his feudals to kill him. The Mahapurana (57) mentions Sanjayanta and Jayanta as the sons of king Vaijayanta of Vitasokanagara. Both the sons renounced the world. The latter was reborn as Nagendra. Vidyutdamstra is said to have punished muni Sanjayanta because his aerial car had suddenly stopped where the muni was maditating. Then Nagendra threw away Vidyutdamstra into the sea, but he was saved by a celestial being. The Ramapurana of Bhattaraka Somasena. (p. 8) names the mother of Sanjayanta as Sundari and further agrees with the Mahapurana