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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always careful to give the gift of safety desired by the whole world. By making the gift of safety people become charming, long-lived, healthy, with beauty of form, and strong in other births.
The gift of supporting dharma (dharmopagrabadāna) is fivefold : purity of giver, receiver, gift, time, and thought. Whatever a giver, who has lawfully acquired wealth, is learned and pious, gives without desire and without regret, in that there is purity of giver. A giver thinks, 'I have attained my desire, I to whom the wish, the object to be given and a suitable person have come at the same time.' That gift would have purity of receiver, whose receiver is such a man as has ceased censurable activity, is lacking in three vanities, 85 has three controls,88 observes the five kinds of carefulness, or is free from love and hate, has no attachment to towns, dwelling, body, clothes, etc., cheerful in observing the eighteen thousand laws of good conduct, 38 possesses
. 86 178. Gaurava. The three are rasa, rddhi, and sāta, choice food, riches and high position, and pleasure. Sam. 3, p. ga. Uttar. 31. 4.
86 178. Gupti. Control of mind, body, and speech. Uttar. 2419–25.
87 178. Samiti. Iryā-, care in walking not to injure any living thing; bhāṣā-, care not to injure any one by speech; eșaņā-, care to eat only pure food; ādānanikṣepana-, care in regard to handling possessions; pratisthāpana., or utsarga-, care in regard to sanitation. Uttar. 24. I-18.
88 179. Slānga. These are not so difficult to calculate as one might suppose. The basis is the 10 yatidharma, and the diagram shows how the total is reached. It is all condensed into one Pra. krit sloka, where one word stands for all the divisions of its class
Je no karanti manasā nijjiyāhārasannāsoindi
Pudhavikāyāyārambham, khantijuā te muņi vande. I praise those munis who do not make (etc.) with the mind (etc.) injurious actions to earth-bodies (etc.), whose feeling for food (etc.) and sense of hearing (etc.) are subdued, endowed with forbearance, (etc.). Śilārgādi Ratha Sangraha, verse 1, Pravac. 83646, p. 240 ff. Pañcā. Chap. 14.