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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Sakra's command. For the accomplishment of the desires of the gods is effected by the (mere) thought.
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Sankrandana, eager to go to the Jina, made his uttaravaikriya-form having various jewels. With his eight queens, creepers giving the nectar of loveliness, and with the large troops of actors and Gandharvas, Hari, delighted, circumambulated the best of cars and entered it by the east jeweled stairs. Vāsava sat down on the jeweled lion-throne, facing the east, like a lion on the crag of a mountain peak. The queens of Bidaujas adorned their own seats successively like marālis adorning lotuses. The eighty-four thousand Samānika-gods entered the car by the north stairs. They seated themselves on their respective thrones, like other incomparable images of Vajrin. Other gods and goddesses entered the car by the west stairs and sat down on the proper seats.
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In front of Hari seated on the lion-throne were the eight auspicious things," as if each one had been made by one of the eight wives. Near them were the umbrella, vase, full pitcher, etc. For the signs of sovereignty are companions like a shadow. At the front (of the car) was a large flag-staff, a thousand yojanas high, provided with hundreds of little flags, like a tree with shoots. In front of it were five of Hari's generals 7 and Abhiyogikagods attending carefully to their own duties. So Sakra, surrounded by crores of magnificent gods, his magnificence being praised by clever bands of celestial bards, entertained by the plays, gestures, and concerts constantly performed by the bands of actors and musicians; the flag-staff drawn ahead by five armies; splitting the universe, as it were,
84 309. Amṛtavalli, the Cocculus cordifolius (MW). 85 314. The ed. reads: rūpadvipāntarāṇīvāpratirūpāņi vajriṇaḥ. The MSS. read: rūpadhiyan" which must, I think, be emended to rūpadheyän°.
86 316. See I, n. 153.
87 319. The generals of the naṭyānīka and gandharvānīka were with Sakra.
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