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 TWO
King Jitaśatru. For that reason my throne shook. Shame on these wicked thoughts of mine. May the sin which I, drunk with power, committed be without consequences." With this thought Purandara arose, abandoning his
lion-throne, foot-stool, and slippers. Satamakha hastily
took several steps, as if starting out, facing the direction of the Tirthakṛt. Placing his right knee on the ground and bending the left a little, touching the ground with his hands and head, Hari bowed to the Master. After he had praised the Master with the Sakrastava," Pākaśāsana returned to his own place, like the ocean turned back by the shore.
Then Sunāsira, his body horripilated at once like delight embodied, instructed General Naigameşin to inform all the gods of the Tirthankara's birth and to summon them to its festival, like a householder his own people. The general accepted Pakaśāsana's command on his head eagerly and went away, like a thirsty man who has drunk water. He struck three times the bell Sughoṣā which has a radius of a yojana, and which was like an immense bell on the neck of the cow of the assembly of Sudharma. A loud noise arose when it was struck, the guest of the range of hearing of every one, like the noise of the ocean when it was churned. Thirty-two lacs-less one 8 of other bells rang distinctly also because of its ringing, like calves lowing because of the cow's lowing. All of Saudharmakalpa seemed to be made of only sound from the loud penetrating sound of the bells. The gods in the palaces, always negligent, awakened at that sound, like lions lying in caves.
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"I think Sughoṣā, delighting in a proclamationdrama, has been rung by some god at the command of the king of gods. Certainly the proclamation announcing Vasava's command must be heard." With this expectation
79 262. See I, n. 166.
80 268. I.e., Sughoṣā.