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VĀSUPŪJYACARITRA
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One day he, noble-minded, went to the feet of the guru Vajranābha and took initiation, the messenger of the advent of the Sri of emancipation. He, wise, acquired the body-making karma of a Tirthankara by means of some of the pure sthānakas, 88 devotion to the Arhats, et cetera. For a long time he kept his vow sharper than the blade of a sword and at death he became a powerful god in the heaven Prāṇata.
Incarnation as Vāsupūjya (13-369) Now in the southern half of Bharata in Jambūdvīpa, there is a city named Campā like a campaka-wreath of the earth. Its people were characterized by having vaikriyaforms, 89 as it were, from their reflections in the shrines whose walls were made of jewels. At every house the pleasure-pools were supplied with water by themselves by the steps paved with moonstones dripping with water at night. Many of its houses which had creepers of smoke from incense which was present appeared like houses of Pātāla with snakes. Its pleasure-pools with young women of the city playing in them had the appearance of the Ocean of Milk with Apsarases emerging. The women, harsh with the sadja-note, 91 singing the sadjakaisiki 92 with ease, rival the cries of the peacocks. Women, carrying betelleaf and areca nuts into the houses of rich men, appear to hold pleasure-parrots to teach.
His parents (20-28) The king there was named Vasupujya, a member of the Ikşväku-family, like Vāsava in strength, like the sun (vasu)
88 11. See I, pp. 80 ff. 89 14. The vaikriya-bodies were made of jewels. See I, n. 157. 90 15. See I, n. 192. 91 18. See I, p. 133 and n. 173. Saạja is the first note of the scale.
02 18. A jāti, which Clements, p. 71 calls 'mode' See Sangitaratnākara 7. 9-16.
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