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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RAMA'S EMANCIPATION
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having died, they will become gods in Saudharma; after falling, they will become laymen again in Vijayapuri. Then after death they will become men in Harivarṣa and they will go to heaven, after experiencing death. After falling, they will become the sons of King Kumāravārta and Lakṣmi, Jayakanta and Jayaprabha, in Vijayapuri. Practicing the self-control taught by the Jina, after death both will become gods in Lantaka. Then you, after falling from Acyuta, will be a cakravartin, Sarvaratnamati by name, here in Bharatakṣetra. After falling, the two will be your sons, Indrayudha and Megharatha. You will become a mendicant and go to Vaijayanta. Indrayudha, the soul of Rāvaṇa, will acquire the family-determining karma of a tirthakara, after wandering through three pure births. Then Ravana's soul will become a tīrthanatha, and you will be his ganadhara, after you have fallen from Vaijayanta. Then the two will go to emancipation, but Lakṣmaṇa's soul, your son Megharatha, will go through pure conditions of existence. Then he will be a cakravartin in the city Ratnacitra, the ornament of East Videha in Puşkaradvipa. After enjoying a cakravartin's wealth and becoming a mendicant in turn, he will be a tirthanatha and will attain emancipation."
Sitä visits Lakṣmaṇa in hell (245-261)
After hearing this, Sitendra bowed to Ramabhadra and, because of former affection, went where Lakṣmaṇa was enduring pain. He saw Śambuka and Rāvana fighting angrily with Lakṣmaṇa with factitious shapes of lions, et cetera. Saying, "There is no pain to you fighting thus," the Paramādharmikas, angered, threw them into firepits. The three, being burned, crying aloud, their bodies dripping, were dragged by force into a jar of hot oil. Their bodies, oiled, were thrown on a gridiron for a long time and bursting open with the noise, taḍat taditi, dripped again.
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