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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Sagandharva, Muktahāra, Animişaviştapa, Agnijvālā, Gurujvālā, Sriniketapura, Jayasrinivāsa, Ratnakulisapattana, Vasişthāśraya, Draviņajaya, Sabhadraka, Bhadrasadyapura, Phenaśikhara, Gokşīravarasikhara, Varyakşobhaśikhara, Girisikharaka, Dharaṇivāraņi, Sudarśanapura, Durga, Durdhara, Māhendra, Vijaya, Sugandhini, Suratanāgarapura, and Ratnapura. Vinami himself, who had resorted to Dharaṇendra, inhabited the city Gaganavallabha, the capital of these.
The two rows of Vidyādhara-cities looked very magnificent, as if the Vyantara rows above were reflected below. After making many villages and suburbs, they established communities according to the suitability of place. The communities there were called by the same name as the community from which the men had been brought and put there. Then Nami and Vinami established the Lord, the son of Nābhi, in these cities in the assembly as in their own minds. “Do not let the Vidyadharas, insolent because of their vidyās, show disrespect." Dharañendra instructed them about the law as follows: “If any insolent persons show disrespect or do injury to the Jinas, or the Jinas' shrines, or to those who will attain mokşa in this birth, or to any ascetics engaged in pratimā, the vidyās will abandon them at once, just as wealth abandons lazy people. Whoever kills a man with his wife, or enjoys women against their will, the vidyās will abandon him at once." After proclaiming aloud this law to last so long as the moon, the Master of the Nāgas had it inscribed in edicts on the jeweled walls. After installing them by his favor in the lordship of the Vidyadharas and after laying down the law, the Indra Dharaña departed.
There were sixteen classes named after their respective vidyās: Gaureyas from the name of the Gauris; Manupūrvakas from Manus; Gāndhāras from Gandhāris; Mānavas from Mānavis; Kausikipūrvakas are known from the vidyās Kausikis; Bhūmituņďakas are named from the vidyās Bhūmitundās; Mülaviryakas are known from the vidyās