The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

225 - Maṇimēkhalai receives a Prediction
The king hearing [165] of the death of the prince from the Rishis
resident in Cakravāḷakoṭṭam will throw you into prison, and the
crowned queen knowing this will take you out of the prison and keep
you under her control.
The prayer of your mother Mādhavī and the intercession of the sage
Aṟavaṇa Aḍigaḷ will ultimately gain for you release. After that you
will reach Śāvaham, and there meeting its ruler, Āputra, will come
back to Maṇipallavam. Āputra will learn there, by the sight of the
Buddha-seat, his anterior history from Tīvatilakai, and will return to
his country.
You will then assume the guise of a mendicant and go to the city of
Vañji to learn from teachers of various religious persuasions their
teaching. You may hold to the truth firmly that the result of deeds is
inevitable and those that die must necessarily be born again. So far is
your story. If you wish to know mine, I am of the gods. My name is
Tuvadikan, Maya, the architect has carved in this old pillar a form
exactly like mine. I never go out of it.’
Maṇimēkhalai then begged him to tell her her further history
carrying it forward to her death. The god told her:
‘You will come to learn at Vañji that the city of Kāñcī suffered from
famine owing to failure of rain, and that your mother Mādhavī, her
companion Sutamatī, and the teacher Aṟavaṇa Aḍigaḷ were all three
gone to that city and were awaiting your arrival. You would then
proceed to Kāñcī and provide the starving people with food and save
them from death. You would perform similarly many another
miracle in that city.
Ultimately you will let Aṟavaṇa Aḍigaḷ know all that you have heard
from the teachers of religion at Vañji. He will then teach you what