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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BIRTH OF AJITA AND SAGARA
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eight steps, his face upturned in the direction of the Tirthakrt, his upper garment placed in folds over his mouth,“ placing his right knee on the ground and bending his left a little, he bowed, the surface of the ground touched by his head and hands. Sakra paid homage accompanied by the Sakrastava 61 to the Jina and went to Vinītā to the house of King Jitaśatru.
Knowing the descent of the Arhat from the shaking of their thrones at that time, the other Indras also came there with devotion. Sakra and the other Indras also, devoted to the blessed lady, came to the splendid sleepinghouse of the mistress, Queen Vijayā. It had a courtyard with svastikas inlaid with priceless collections of pearls, big as the fruit of the myrobalan, spotless, smooth, and round; it had arches made at the doors with golden pillars decorated with puppets of sapphire and with leaves of emerald ; and a canopy of whole divine cloths of fine threads, five-colored, resembling the sky with twilight-clouds, arranged on all sides; adorned with columns of smoke rising from golden incense-machines, like raised clubs of a harem-guard.
They saw the mistress on a beautiful couch which was a little high on the sides and a little depressed in the middle, with pillows filled with down from a harsa's breast and spread with white covers, like a female hansa on a sandy beach of the Gangā. They announced themselves, bowed, and explained to Vijayā that the fruit of the dreams took the form of a Tirthankara's birth. Then Śakra instructed Dhanada (Kubera): “You filled this city with jewels, etc., at the beginning of the reign of Rşabha Svāmin. Renew this city by new houses, etc.,
00 44. Uttarāsanga, defined in PE, s.v., as 'wrapping the scarf around face' (illustrated in PE, I, p. 349), and this seems to be generally accepted. But in KSK 15, p. 27b, it is interpreted only as 'vaikakşam.'
61 46. See I, n. 166. 62 48. It varies from to it in, in diameter.