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Triprstha, and Bala began a hymn of praise as follows in voices penetrated with devotion:
Stuti (818-826) "O Supreme Lord, to you who cause a stream of great joy, who have become the cause of emancipation, to you homage for the sake of emancipation only. Just at the sight of you, a person, forgetting other actions, would become devoted to the supreme spirit. How much more from hearing your sermon? Have you, an Ocean of Milk, appeared? Or, a kalpa tree, grown up ?. Or, a raincloud, descended in the desert of saṁsāra ? You, the eleventh Lord Jina, lord of the kevalins, are the protector of the world suffering from cruel actions which must result in evil.76 By you the Ikşvāku-family, naturally pure, has been made extremely pure, o lord, like crystal by water. Your feet, O Lord, surpass all shade by the removal of all pain in the three worlds. Delighted to become a bee at your lotus-feet, I am eager neither for enjoyment nor for emancipation, Jina. I seek your feet, my protection in every existence, O Lord of the World. What does service to you not accomplish?"
When Väsava, Upendra (Triprstha), and Sīrin had become silent after this hymn of praise, Sreyansa began a sermon, the source of emancipation.
Sermon on nirjarā (827–841) "This boundless samsarā resembles the ocean Svayambhüramaņa. People are whirled around in it, across, up, and down, by waves of karma. Just as perspiration is destroyed by a breeze, just as flayors are destroyed by medicine, so the eight karmas are destroyed quickly by
76 821. So Muni Jayantavijayaji interprets it. The editor of the text takes jyotişmatām patiḥ to be 'moon,' in which case asadgrahaiḥ would certainly mean 'cruel planets. (Cf. I, n. 136). There could be a double meaning throughout the sloka.
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