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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CHAPTER ONE
tion of karma by a month's fast, he performed penance in the form of fasting ending with a fast of eight months. After he had practiced severe penance in this way and had performed the two samlekhanās,6e at the end he fasted till death, absorbed entirely in tranquillity. Recalling the formula of homage to the Five Supreme Ones, 58 absorbed in abstract meditation, he abandoned his body as easily as a house.
Life as a god (306–312) He became a god in the palace Vijaya in the Anuttaravimānas, with a life-period of thirty-three sāgaras. With a body a cubit tall, white as moon-beams, an Ahamindra, free from arrogance, adorned with beautiful ornaments, always free from opposition, placed on a beautiful couch, not going to another 64 place, not making an uttaravaikriya (body), beholding the lokanāli 66 through a wealth of clairvoyant knowledge, he experienced the highest bliss indicative of the bliss of emancipation. He breathed by fortnights corresponding to the sägaras of his life, 56 and desired to eat by corresponding thousands of
fashion. The short siöhaniḥkridita is 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 6, 5, 7, 6, 8, 7, 9, 8, 9, 7, 8, 6, 7, 5, 6, 4, 5, 3, 4, 2, 3, I, 2, 1. This makes 154 fast-days and 33 fast-breaking days, or a total of 6 months and days for each of the 4 series. The long sinhaniḥkridita is on the same principle and extends up to a fast of 16 days, making a total of 1 year, 6 months, and 18 days in each series.
52 304. See I, p. 357. 58 305. See I, n. 71.
54 308. The gods can not descend to earth in their natural bodies, but make another body called ' uttaravaikriya.' K., p. 307, says that in the Graiveyaka- and Anuttara-heavens, the gods have only their natural bodies (bhavadhāraniya). In the lower heavens, they have both kinds.
65 309. The part of the universe which contains both movable and immovable lives. See below, Chap. III.
56 310. I.e., once in 33 fortnights, and he ate once in 33,000 years.