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CHAPTER ONE
Śrīpati, mounted on an elephant, endowed with great good fortune, entered Potanapura, which was like a new city of Śrī, covered with pearl svastikas like the sky with stars; adorned with rows of festoons like a hundred rainbows; the surface of the ground sprinkled as if it had rained; with lofty heavenly palaces, as it were, in the form of high platforms with shining vessels; with a wedding being held at every house, as it were, from the auspicious songs; seeming to have all the people in the world made into a crowd from the excessive crowding (of the people). Then Prajāpati, Jvalanajațin, Acala, and other kings celebrated Triprstha's coronation as Ardhacakrin.
Omniscience of Śreyānsa (777–782) Now the Lord, Blessed Śreyānsa, wandering for two months as an ordinary ascetic, reached the grove Sahasrāmravaņa. As the Master stood at the foot of an aśoka, engaged in meditation, being at the unshakable end of the second pure meditation, his destructive karmas—knowledge- and belief-obscuring, deluding, and obstructive-disappeared like a ball of wax in a fire. On the fifteenth day of the black half of Māgha, the moon being in conjunction with Sravaņa, by means of a two-day fast, the Lord's omniscience became manifest.
The eleventh Arhat, endowed with supernatural powers, delivered a sermon in a samavasaraņa made there by the gods. By that sermon of the Lord many people were enlightened. Some adopted complete self-control; others partial self-control.75 There were seventy-six gaṇabhrts, Gośubha and others, who composed the twelve scriptures after hearing the three steps from the Master.'
Śāsanadevatās (784-787) A Yakşa, originating in the congregation, named Išvara, three-eyed, white, with a bull for a vehicle, with one
75 782. See I, p. 432.
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