Once upon a time
There was a rich family with four members-the parents
The son and the daughter,Patajala
The family had a male servent ,Jula who took care of Patajala since she was very young
Years passed and Patajala grew up and it was a suitable age for her to marry someone
The parents discussed Patajala’s marriage which would give them descendants
They did not know that Patajala had an affection for Jula
Days passed, the parents tried to urge her to marry someone
She finally could not resist pressure to marry so she discussed the matter with Jala,her lover
Jula advised her to forget him and to marry someone who was more suitable than he
A few months later there was a rich family to make a marriage proposal to Patajala to marry their son
Patajala’s parent agreed on the marriage proposal but Patajala was still having a deep aaffection for Jula
Even though Patajala’s parents appealed to her to marry the rich family’s son, she refused
Her parents tied her up and beat her with a stick to force her to accept the proposal but she still refused
Jula recognized that Patajala was so faithful to her love to Jula so they ran away together to live together
Patajala and jula lived together in a rough wooden hut at the foot of a hill
They worked hard and did their household chores which PaTajala didn’t use to do
Patajala was pregnant and later she bore her first child
She missed her home and would like to bring Jula and the child to visit her home but Jula disagreed with her
He told her that it was the escape of no return
Her first child then was grown and later she was having her second child and it was almost her labor date
She missed her parents so she persuaded Jula to return her home and live there because they lived a somewhere else
She managed to return home for her lador
She left the hut for a while and it began to rain
Jula followed her and brought her to the hut
It’s time for her to have a labor pain
It was raining cats and dogs so that the roof of the hut was leaked
Jula went outside to bring some leaves to mend the roof
While he was walking into nearby forest, a poisonous snake bit him and he later was dead in the forest
Patajala was in her labor
The rain passed through the leaky roof and Jula wasn’t home
She was waiting for her husband to return but it was in vain
She finally bore a child
She and her two children slept in the hut and they were soaked by the rain
When dawn broke next morning ,Jula didn’t return so she decide to bring her two children to search for her husband in the forest
As they were walking into the forest for a while, they found a dead body
It was Jula !
She wailed bitterly for a moment
Her sadness subsided
She collected some dried twige to cover the body to prevent some buzzards to eat the corpse
She carrying the newborn with a child walked aimlessly in the forest, and thought about her punishing life
Thinking back, she was born in a rich family but she was so unlucky to live a hard life
It was so sad for her that she could not manage the corpse properly
She was in despair
She caring the newborn in her arm and holding a child in another hand walked through the forest, headed to her parents’ home
Later they arrived at a river which was not deep and they thought that they could walk across the river
The current was so strong because it rained heavily last night
The river had a lot of water
Because of the strong current, she could not bring her two children to cross the river at the sane time so she told the older child to wait at the bank of the river
She carefully held the newborn across the river first
They crossed the river to another bank
She placed the newborn on safe place on the river bank
She walked across the river to return to her older child on the other side of the river
While she was crossing the river,there was a large hawk flying over the newborn
The hawk saw the newborn as its prey so it lowered itself and carried the newborn to be its food
Patajala was in the middle of the river and she saw the hawk carrying her newborn in the air
She waved her hands and screamed at the hawk to scare the bird
The older child waiting on the other side of the bank though that the mother waving her hands called him into the river
The older child hurriedly ran into the river and strong tide carried his body away
Sadly,the older child disappeared in the current
Patajala witnessed the two events which she could not help them
Patajala was so sad
She wailed and walked home in despair
She finally arrived her old place but she could not find anybody home so she asked nighbors about her old home
The neighbors told her that a severe storm wrecked her home and the wreckage killed her father,mother and brother
They were all dead
After she had heard the bad news, she was in agony
She painfully recalled that her husband was killed by a poisonous snake , her newborn was carried and eaten by a hawk , her older child was swallowed by the strong current and her old family was destroyed by severe storm
She was severely mental hurt and went insane since then
As an insane woman, she wandered everywhere and finally arrived at Chettawan Temple where the lord Buddha was staying
The lord Buddha was preaching his followers in the temple hall
Patajala tried to go into the hall but she was prevented and compelled by the followers
The lord Buddha witnessed the event and told his followers to allow her to attend his preaching
By virtue of the lord Buddha’s teaching and her previous reincarnation virtue, she turned sane and understand the teaching
She asked permission from the lord Buddha to be his follower, a female monk.
With her industrious study , she finally turned his Orahan