Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

SR No.: 001001
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1931
Total Pages: 565
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, Story, N000, & N010
File Size: 11 MB

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Maṇyāngas likewise did not deliver manifold ornaments, etc., as if filled with anxiety, “How will they be replaced again ?" The Gehākāras made houses slowly, slowly, like poets whose powers and proficiency are dull producing good poems. Even the Anagnas gave clothes very reluctantly like clouds that have cruel planets 138 as obstacles giving rain.
As the consequence of such a time, the twins developed a sense of ownership in the wishing-trees, as if in their own bodies. When one of them approached a wishing-tree considered his own by another, it was a great insult to the one having first claim to ownership. Then unable to endure the mutual injuries, they made Vimalavāhana their chief, with authority as lord. Knowing niti from recollections of former births, he divided the wishing-trees and gave them to the twins, as an old man divides property among members of his family. He promulgated the law of Hākāra for the punishment of any one who crossed the boundary from desire for another's wishing-tree. As a result of his punishment with the words, “Hā! you did that wickedly," the twins did not exceed the boundaries, as waters do not exceed the bank of the ocean. In regard to the Hā-punishment the twins thought, "Better corporal punishment, etc., than the disgrace of the Hā”.
When half a year only of his life remained, his wife Candrayaśas bore twins. A boy and girl, with lives of numberless pūrvas, with good bodies, having the first kind of joints, dark, eight hundred bows tall, named Cakşuşmat and Candrakāntā by the parents, born together, they grew up like a creeper and a tree. After caring for the twins for six months, Vimalavāhana died without old age or disease, and was born among the Suvarņakakumāras. At the same time Candrayaśas died and was
138 156. The cruel planets are Sani (Saturn), Mangala (Mars), Ravi (Sun), Rāhu, and Ketu. The favorable ones are Budha (Mercury), Sukra (Venus), Bphaspati (Jupiter), and Candra (Moon). Wilkins, p. 359. Martin, pp. 295 f.