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
55 these belonging to the north row : Mahākāla, Apratirūpa, Māạibhadra, Mahābhima, Kimpuruşa, Mahāpuruşa, Mahākāya, Gitayaśas, knowing the birth of the Arhat from the shaking of the thrones in both rows, had their bells, Mañjusvarā and Mañjughoşā respectively, rung by their respective generals. When the sound of the bells had died away and the proclamation had been made by the generals, the Vyantaras, Piśācas, etc., went to their respective Indras. The Indras, surrounded by the gods except the Trāyastriňśas and Lokapas-for they, like the sun and moon, do not have Trāyastriñías and Lokapas-each one attended by four thousand Sāmānikas and sixteen thousand body-guards, entered their cars created by their respective Ābhiyogika-gods and went to Meru to the Blessed One.
Likewise, the sixteen Indras of the eight classes of Vyantaras, the Aņapannikas, o5 etc., occupying both north and south rows, like the Indras of the Piśācas, etc., knowing the birth of the Jina by the shaking of their thrones as before, had Mañjusvarā and Mañjughoşā struck and the proclamation made by their respective generals and, accompanied each by his own Vyantaras, got into their cars created by the Abhiyogikas and with the Sāmānikas, etc., as before went into the presence of the Jina.
Innumerable Suns and Moons with retinues also came to the Jina on Meru, like sons to a father. Thus sixtyfour Indras, independent, (but) as if they were subject to another, came together in haste with devotion from desire for the Master's birth-festival.
The Indra of the eleventh and twelfth heavens 06 instructed the Ābhiyogika-gods to bring the paraphernalia for the bath. The Abhiyogikas went off in the northeast
85 412. These are the same as the Aprajñaptikas of 3. 525. See PE, PH, and Rājendra sub Aộapanpiya, Aṇavanniya, and Anapanniya ; Pravac. 1131, p. 333a; and Aup. 24. PH Sanskritizes the word as Anapannika and Anaparạika. K., p. 275, has Rņaparņi.
96 418. Acyuta, the Indra of Acyuta- and Araņakalpa.