Part 7: Previous birth of Suprabha as Mahābala

Now in Jambūdvīpa in East Videha there is a fair city, Nandapurī, the birth-place of great joy. Its king was Mahābala, who gave sorrow to his enemies’ wives, the ornament to the garden of his family, like an aśoka. Noble-minded, he felt disgust with worldly existence, like a clever city-man disgusted with living in a village. He went to Ṛṣi Vṛṣabha’s lotus-feet, pulled out his hair in five handfuls, and adopted good conduct. After cherishing good conduct like a garden bearing much fruit, he died, and became a chief-god in Sahasrāra.