Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 2

SR No.: 001002
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1937
Total Pages: 438
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 9 MB

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EMANCIPATION OF AJITA SVĀMIN AND SAGARA
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place reached by the Master, like a companion. At that time there was happiness for a moment even for hellinhabitants to whom happiness was unknown, because of the Master's nirvāņa-festival.
Funeral rites of Ajita and the munis (689-701)
Then Sakra bathed the Master's body with divine water, and sorrowfully anointed it with gośirşa-sandal paste. Hari clothed the Master's body with garments with a hansa-pattern, and adorned it with various divine ornaments. The gods did the bathing, anointing, ornamenting, and clothing of the bodies of the other munis. Placing the Master's body on a divine litter, Purandara conducted it to the suitable funeral pyre made of gośirşasandal. The other gods placed the bodies of the other munis on a litter and took them to a pyre made of gośīrşasandal. The Agnikumāra-gods made a fire in the pyres and the Vāyukumāras made it flame at once. By order of Sakra the gods threw camphor and musk by bhāraweights and pitchers of ghi by hundreds on the pyre. When the Master's other elements, except the bones, had been consumed. the Meghakumāra-gods put out the fire in the pyre. Sakra and Īśāna took the Master's right and left upper molar teeth, and Camara and Bali the lower. The other Indras took the Lord's other teeth, and the other gods the bones, after dividing them with devotion. Whatever else was to be done in that connection, the Indras did all that according to rule; then went together to Nandiśvara, and held an eight-day festival to the eternal Arhats with a great celebration.
Then the gods and Indras went to their respective abodes. They put the Jina's teeth in round diamond boxes and set them on the pillars named 'Māņavaka' in Sudharmā. The Indras constantly worship them, like the eternal statues of the Arhats, with the best fragrant incense and wreaths. From their power unequaled victory and happiness existed unimpeded for them (the Indras).