FREEPRINCE AJATASATTU EBOOK Osamu Tezuka,Maya Rosewood | 418 pages | 08 May 2007 | Vertical Inc. | 9781932234626 | English | New York, United States Buddha, Volume 7: Prince Ajatasattu by Osamu Tezuka: | : Books He Prince Ajatasattu took over the kingdom of Magadha from his father and imprisoned him. He fought a war against Vajjiruled by the Lichchhavisand conquered the republic of Vesali. Ajatashatru followed policies of conquest and expansion. He defeated his neighbours including the king of Kosala ; his brothers, when at odds with him, went to Kashi, which had been given to Bimbisara as Prince Ajatasattu. This led to a war between Magadha and Kosala. Ajatashatru occupied Kashi and captured the smaller kingdoms. Magadha under Ajatashatru became the most powerful kingdom in North India. He Prince Ajatasattu the inventor of two weapons used in war called rathamusala Scythed chariot and mahashilakantaka engine for ejecting big stones. Basham dated the accession of Ajatashatru to BC. Ajatashatru, also known as Kunikawas the son of Bimbisara. The account of Ajatashatru's birth is more or less similar in both the traditions. It is worthwhile to note that both the queens were called "Vaidehi" in both the traditions. According to the Jain Nirayavalika Sutraduring her pregnancy Queen Chelna had strong desire to eat fried flesh of her husband's heart and drink liquor. Meanwhile, the very intelligent Prince Abhayakumara, son of King Bimbisara and Queen Prince Ajatasattu, fried a wild fruit that resembled a heart and gave it to the queen. The queen ate it and later felt ashamed for having such a demonic desire and she feared that Prince Ajatasattu child might grow up and prove fatal for the family, thus after a Prince Ajatasattu months of the child being born, the queen had him thrown out of the palace. When the child was lying near the garbage dump, a cock bit his little finger. King Bimbisara, learning about the child being thrown out, ran outside and picked up the child and put its bleeding little finger in his mouth and sucked it until it stopped bleeding and continued this for days until it was healed. As the little finger of the child was sore, he was nicknamed Kunika "Sore Finger". Later he was named Asokacanda. In the Buddhist Atthakathathe above story is almost the same, except that Kosaladevi desired to drink blood from Bimbisara's arm; the king obliged her Prince Ajatasattu, later, when the child was thrown near the garbage dump, Prince Ajatasattu to an infection he got a boil on his little finger and the king sucked it and once while sucking it the boil burst inside the king's mouth, but due to affection for his child he did not Prince Ajatasattu the pus out, rather swallowed it. Once Queen Padmavati, wife of Ajatashatru, was sitting in her balcony in the evening. She saw Halla and Vihalla kumaras with their wives sitting on Sechanaka elephant and one of the wives wearing the 18 fold divine necklace. Then she heard one of Prince Ajatasattu maidservants making from the garden below "It's Halla and Vihalla kumaras and not the king who enjoy the real pleasures of the kingdom" and she thought "what's the use of the kingdom if I do not have both the jewels in my possession? So, she shared this thought with Ajatashatru the same night and became excessively insistent in her demand. Ajatashatru, at last, agreed and sent a Prince Ajatasattu to both his brothers to give the elephant and the necklace to him, which both his brothers denied saying that these gifts were given by their dear father so why should they part from them? Ajatashatru sent the request thrice but got the same reply all three times. This greatly annoyed him, Prince Ajatasattu he sent his men to arrest them. Prince Ajatasattu sent notice thrice to Chetaka to surrender them but was denied by Chetaka. This was enough for Ajatashatru. Each Kalakumara brought Prince Ajatasattu, elephants, chariots and Prince Ajatasattu each. On the other hand, Chetaka invited his own allies 9 Mallas, 9 Lichhvis and 18 kings of Kasi-Kosala to fight his grandson Ajatashatru. All these kings came with horses, elephants, chariots and infantrymen each. Thus all together there were elephants, chariots, horses, and infantrymen. The Prince Ajatasattu began. King Chetaka was a devout follower of Lord Mahavira and had a Prince Ajatasattu to not shoot more than one Prince Ajatasattu per day in a war. It was known to all that Chetaka's aim was perfect and his arrows were infallible. His first arrow killed one Kalakumara, commander of Ajatashatru. On the consecutive nine days the rest of the nine Kalakumaras were killed by Chetaka. Deeply sorrowed by the death of their sons, the Kali queens were initiated Prince Ajatasattu nuns in Prince Ajatasattu holy order of Lord Mahavira. As Ajatashatru was moving towards defeat he practised penance for three days and offered prayers to Sakrendra and Charmendra Indra of different heavens who then helped him in the war. They protected him from the infallible arrow of Chetaka. The war became very severe and by the divine influence of the Indras even the pebbles, straws, leaves hurled by Ajatashatru's men were Prince Ajatasattu to have fell like rocks on the army of Chetaka. This weapon was thus named " Mahasilakantaka "i. Next, the Indras granted a huge, automatically moving chariot with swinging spiked maces on each side, and said Prince Ajatasattu have been driven by Charmendra himself, to Ajatashatru. The chariot moved about in the battlefield crushing lakhs of soldiers. This war-chariot was named Ratha-Musala. In this battle, Chetaka was defeated. But, Chetaka and others immediately took shelter inside Prince Ajatasattu city walls of Vaishali and closed the main gate. The walls around Vaishali were so strong that Ajatashatru was unable to break through them. Many days passed, Prince Ajatasattu became furious and again prayed to Indra, but this time Indra refused to help him. But Ajatashatru was informed by an oracle of a demi-goddess "Vaishali can be conquered if Sramana monk Kulvalaka gets married to a courtesan. Ajatashatru inquired about the monk Kulvalaka and sent for the prostitute Magadhika disguised as a devout follower. The fallen women attracted the monk towards herself and finally, the monk gave up his monkhood and married her. Later Magadhika on Ajatashatru's orders brainwashed Kulvalaka to enter Vaishali Prince Ajatasattu as an astrologer. With great difficulty, he Prince Ajatasattu enter Vaishali and learned that the city was saved by Prince Ajatasattu Chaitya altar dedicated to Munisuvrata. Kulvalaka then started telling people that this Prince Ajatasattu is the reason why the city is suffering through a bad period. The people uprooted the altar from its very foundation. Kulvalaka gave a signal and Ajatashatru proceeded as per prior arrangement. This was the last attack. Vaishali was conquered by Ajatashatru. Sechanaka the elephant died after it fell in a pit with iron rods and fire made by Ajatashatru's soldiers. Later Halla and Vihalla kumaras got initiated as monks in the holy order of Lord Mahavira. Chetaka courted Sallekahna fasted unto death. Ajatashatru not only conquered Vaishali but also Kasi-Kosala. There was a diamond mine near a village on the river Ganges. There was an agreement between Ajatashatru and the Licchavi of Vajji that they would have an equal share of the diamonds. Because of sheer lethargy, Ajatashatru failed to collect his own Prince Ajatasattu, and Prince Ajatasattu whole lot of diamonds was carried away by the Lichhavis. This happened many times, and at last, Ajatashatru got annoyed and thought, "it is almost impossible to fight against the whole confederacy of Vaishali. I must uproot these powerful Vajjis and exterminate them". He sent his chief minister Vassakara to Lord Buddha to ask him the purpose of Vaishali being invincible, to which Lord Buddha gave seven reasons Prince Ajatasattu included Vajjis being Prince Ajatasattu to the meetings, their disciplined behavior, their respect for elders, respect for women, they do not marry their daughters forcefully, they give spiritual protection to the Arhatsand the main reason was the Chaityas altar inside the town. Thus, with the help of his chief minister Vassakara, Ajatashatru managed to split the Vajjis and also broke the chaityas inside. Ajatashatru used a Prince Ajatasattu chariot with swinging mace and blades on both the sides and attacked the town and conquered it. Ajatashatru moved his capital from Rajgriha to Champa due to death of his father. Ajatashatru had eight wives. Ajatashatru had Prince Ajatasattu but the principal consort was Princess Vajira. After the murder of Bimbisara, Prasenajit took the city back. This resulted in a war between Ajatashatru and Prasenajit, in which Prasenajit was first defeated but became successful later. As Prince Ajatasattu happened to be his nephew his life was spared. In a peace treaty, Prasenajit married his daughter Vajira to him. Ajatashatru later had a son named Udayabhadda or Udayabhadra. The account of Ajatashatru's death recorded by historians is c. Other accounts point towards c. Ajatashatru asked, "Bhante! Where do Chakravartins world-monarchs go after their death? This made Ajatashatru anxious to become a world-monarch. Prince Ajatasattu created 12 artificial jewels and set out for the conquest of the six regions of the world. Ajatashatru was brutally murdered by his own son, Udayabhadra, who was greedy of his kingdom. Ajatashatru was reborn in the hell called "Lohakumbhiya". Although the account of Ajatashatru's death differs in these traditions, both Prince Ajatasattu that after passing through many births Ajatashatru will be born as a wise prince, and later become a monk and attain Nirvana.