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[Full title: Didactic stories; (A) Religious cum Moral Stories; (43) The previous births of Visalya and Laksmana or the story of Anangasara and Punarvasu]

Bhamandala related this story to Vibhisana to assuage the latter's sorrow on the death of Ravana in the battle field (74. 31-40). It illustrates how the living beings on account of delusion get too much attached to the environment they live in, however nasty it may be. When king Aridamana, the son of Laksamidhara of Aksapura after vanquishing his foes returned home, he found that his wife was jubilant in advance and the city was gay with decorations. On enquiry he learned that a monk had told her of his victory in advance. Aridamana verified it from the monk who had perceived it by the power of his clairvoyance. On further enquiry the monk prophesied that he (Aridamana) would die after seven days and would be reborn as a worm in his own lavatory. Aridamana went home and asked his son Pritinkara to destroy the worm when it was seen there. The king died and was reborn as a worm. When Pritinkara tried to destroy it, On he found that it was running to the interior of the lavatory. further enquiry the same monk told Pritinkara that one develops great attachment to the environment or the place where one is born. The Paumacariya (77.57-70) adds that Pritinkara thereafter became a monk. The Ramapurana of Bhattaraka Somasena. (p. 160) mentions that Aridambha (Aridamana) was reborn as a boar and it fled away on seeing Pritinkara.