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Tirthankara, may there be future servitude (to her)," and conquered by her beauty also, goddesses became her slaves.
CHAPTER FIVE
His birth (27-37)
Now, the jiva of Nandişeņa in the sixth Graiveyaka completed his life of twenty-eight sägaras. Falling on the eighth of Bhadrapada, the moon being in conjunction with Radha, Nandişena's jiva descended into the womb of Pṛthvi. Sleeping comfortably during the rest of the night, Queen Pṛthvi saw then the fourteen great dreams indicating the birth of a Tirthakṛt. While the embryo was growing, the Queen saw herself asleep on a couch of serpents which had one hood, five hoods, and nine hoods. On the twelfth day of the bright half of Jyeṣṭha, the moon being in Viśākhā, she bore easily a son, gold colored, marked with a svastika.
Knowing the birth of the Jina by clairvoyant knowledge, the fifty-six Dikkumaris came there quickly and performed the birth-rites. Likewise Sakra came there and took the Lord of the World to the rock Atipäṇḍukambalā on the top of Meru. Holding the Supreme Lord on his lap like a nurse, Purandara sat on the jeweled lion-throne there. The sixty-three Indras in turn bathed the Lord of the Tirtha with water from tirthas, like waves of the ocean a mountain on the shore. After placing the Lord on Isana's lap, Sakra bathed him with water rising from the horns of crystal bulls resembling water produced by fountains. After anointing him and worshipping him with clothes, ornaments, etc., the Indra of Saudharma began a hymn of praise to the Lord of the World.
Stuti (38-45)
'The desire on my part to praise you who have undiscernible nature is like the leap of a monkey to take the sun. Nevertheless, I will praise you by means of your power, O Supreme Lord. For moon-stones trickle from the
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