Part 2: Previous incarnations of Nami

In this very Jambūdvīpa in the province Bharata^[1] in West Videhā, there is a city Kauśāmbī, the storehouse of wealth. Its king was Siddhārtha, whose commands were unbroken like Ākhaṇḍala’s, by whom all beggars were made to have their desires accomplished. His dignity, resoluteness, generosity, heroism, intelligence, and other virtues, too, were all remarkable, as if in rivalry with each other. Of him, who was extremely prosperous, the widely expanded wealth was for the benefit of everyone like the shade of a tree on the road. Dharma alone made her dwelling in his very pure mind constantly like a rājahaṃsa on a lotus. One day disgusted with existence he abandoned his wealth like straw and took initiation at the feet of Muni Sudarśana. He acquired body-making karma of a tīrthakṛt by some of the sthā-nakas, observed the vow completely, died, and went to Aparājita.