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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bell Mahāghoṣā. Its sound filled twenty-eight lacs of palaces, like the sound of the ocean with high waves filling the mountain-caves on the shore. The gods of these palaces awakened at its sound like sleeping kings at the sound of the conch at daybreak. When the sound of the bell Mahāghoṣā had died away, the general made a proclamation as follows in a voice deep as thunder: "In the city Vinita in Bharata in Jambudvipa the Lord, the second Tirthakṛt, has been born of Vijaya and Jitaśatru. Your lord will go to Meru for his birth-ceremony. Therefore, hasten, O gods, to go with your master." At this loud proclamation all the gods went at once into the presence of the Lord of Aiśāna, as if drawn by a charm.
Then Iśāna, the Indra of the northern half,"0 holding a trident, wearing jeweled ornaments like a living Ratnagiri, wearing white garments, wearing a wreath, with a large bull as a vehicle, attended by crores of gods, Sāmānikas, etc., entered the car Puspaka with his retinue and left Aiśānakalpa quickly by the southern path. After traversing numberless continents and oceans in a moment the Indra of Aiśāna arrived at the continent Nandiśvara. There he contracted his car, etc., at the northeast mountain Ratikara, like winter contracting the day. Gradually contracting it without loss of time, he went like a pupil to the feet of the Lord of the World on Sumeru.
Sanatkumāra, Brahmā, Šukra, and Prāṇata with the gods awakened by Naigameşin who rang the bell Sughoṣā, arriving at Nandiśvara by the north path like Sakra, contracted their cars, etc., at the southeast Ratikara. They went into the presence of the Blessed One who was seated on Śakra's lap on the peak of Meru, like constellations into the presence of the moon.
CHAPTER TWO
Mahendra, Lantaka, Sahasrara, and Acyuta with gods awakened by Mahāghoṣā and Laghuparakrama went to Nandiśvara by the south path like Iśāna, and contracted
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Corresponding to Saudharma in the south.