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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HANUMAT'S BIRTH AND VARUŅA'S SUBJECTION
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Sinhavāhana, of King Sukaņtha and Kanakodari in the city Vāruņa on this same Vaitādhya. After enjoying sovereignty for a long time, he took the vows under Muni Lakşmidhara in the congregation of Sri Vimala. After practicing severe penance, he died, and became a god in Lantaka. Then he fell and descended into your friend's womb. Her son will be a powerful Vidyadhara, the abode of virtues, having his last body, irreproachable.
Furthermore, in the city Kanakapura there was a king, named Kanakaratha, crest-jewel of great warriors. He had two wives, Kanakodarī and Lakşmīvati, and Laksmīvati was always an ardent laywoman. She set up a statue of the Jina made of jewels in the house-shrine, had pājās made to it and worshipped it twice a day daily. Crazy from jealousy, Kanakodarī took the Arhat's statue and threw it into the impurity of a trash-pile. At that time Jayasri, the head of a group of nuns, came there in her wandering, saw that, and said to her: 'Why are you doing this, honored lady? By you, throwing here the Arhat's statue, this soul (of yours) has been made the receptacle of the pains of many births.'
At these words, remorsefully she took the statue, cleaned it, asked forgiveness, and set it in its proper place. From that time, possessing right belief, she observed the Jain faith, died in time, and became a goddess in the heaven Saudharma. Then she fell and became Mahendra's daughter, your friend, the result of her throwing the Arhat's statue in an improper place. In that birth you were her sister and approved of that act and experience its consequences with her. The consequences of that evil deed of hers have been experienced for the most part. Adopt the Jain religion. It has favorable results in birth after birth. Her uncle will come suddenly and take her to his house, and soon a meeting with her husband will take place."
After telling this, the muni confirmed them both in the religion of the Arhats and flew up in the air like Garuda.