Part 2: Previous births of the three

In the city Vijayapura Sudarśana was king, fair as the moon, giving joy to the world. After hearing Jain doctrine from Muni Damadhara, his mind being disgusted with existence, he became a mendicant, practiced penance, and became a god in Sahasrāra.

Also here in Bharatakṣetra in the city Potana, Priyamitra was king, who resembled the rising of the sun for lotuses in the form of friends. Suketu^[1] kidnaped his wife and he, disgusted with existence from that humiliation, became a mendicant at Muni Vasubhūti’s side. Afflicted with grief at his wife’s kidnaping, he practiced severe penance and made a nidāna^[2] for killing his wife’s kidnaper. He fasted and died without confessing the nidāna and was born a powerful god in the heaven Māhendra.