Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

SR No.: 001004
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 449
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 9 MB

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SRI MUNISU VRATANATHACARITRA
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other crime will be pre-eminent, for we are foremost among the pre-eminently wicked. We are more debased than traitors even, since we made this wretched man have a living death. Shame, shame on this lust for sense-objects on the part of people with dull discrimination. Even in hell there is no place for us because of that crime. They are fortunate, who, high-minded, their senses always subdued, abandon pleasures of the senses which are the cause of pain in the end. The ones who listen to and practice the religion of the Jinas day and night, who benefit everyone, they are to be praised."
As they were blaming themselves and praising those devoted to dharma, a stroke of lightning struck them and killed them. Because of the development of their mutual affection and of their pure meditation, after death they became twins in Harivarșa. Their parents named them Hari and Hariņi and they were never separated day or night, husband and wife as in the former birth. Their wishes were fulfilled by the ten wishing-trees and they remained there happily, enjoying themselves like gods.
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When Vanamālā and the king were killed by the stroke of lightning, the weaver Vira performed severe 'fool's penance.' After death he became a god of the rank kilbiṣaka 68 in the heaven Saudharma, and he saw his own former birth by clairvoyance, and also Hari and Hariņi. Red-eyed from anger at once, terrible with frowns like Yama, wishing to destroy them, he went to Harivarṣa. The god reflected: "Here they are inviolable and after death will certainly go to heaven from the power of the country. I shall take these enemies of a former birth to another place which will bestow death even unseasonably through the persistence of misfortunes."
Thus resolving, the god took them both with wishingtrees to the city Campă in this Bharata. Just then the king in this city, Candrakirti, belonging to the Ikṣvāku
62 84. See III, n. 285.
63 85. The lowest rank among the gods. See II, p. 125.