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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which resembled Aiśana-heaven, on Atipaṇḍukambalā which has the shape of a half-moon. Carefully he transferred the Teacher of the World to his own lap from Sakra's lap, as if from one chariot to another. Another carried a white umbrella over the Master's head; and two others carried chauris at the Lord's sides. The fifth stood in front of the Lord of the World, holding a trident, like a door-keeper, charming with a noble figure.
Then the Indra of Saudharmakalpa had the materials for the bath brought quickly by the Abhiyogika-gods. He, exceedingly skilful, created four crystal bulls like four more Crystal Mountains 103 in the four directions from the Lord. Eight dazzling streams of water, white as the moon's rays, shot up from the eight horns of the four bulls. After shooting up, they unite in one stream at the top like rivers, and fall on the Lord of the World like the ocean. In this
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way he bathed the Lord. The powerful, like poets, declare themselves in an indirect way. Like the Indra of Acyuta he made the drying, anointing, worship, and eight auspicious objects according to rule. After he had praised the Lord with the Sakrastava and had bowed to him, he began a hymn of praise in a voice choking from joy.
Stuti (493-501)
"Hail! Lord of the Three Worlds.
Hail alone kind to all. Hail! cloud for the new shooting-up of the creeper of merit, Lord of the World. O Master, you have descended to the earth from the palace Vijaya to please this earth, like a river-stream from a mountain. The brilliant triad of three knowledges, like seed of the tree of emancipation, is perfected in you at birth, like coolness in water. Lord of Three Worlds, whoever carry you always in their hearts always face good fortune like an image in a mirror. By good fortune you have become a physician, effecting cures of creatures suffering from the powerful diseases of
108 488. See Chap. III.