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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CHAPTER ONE
nirgundis, embracing the lavalis, touching the new jasmines, making open the trumpet-flowers, approaching the lotuses, going near the aśoka-shoots, favoring the plantains; which was made beautiful by women engaged in swinging; with rich young people from the city occupied in the sport of gathering flowers; giving a welcome, as it were, from the sweet cries of the excited cuckoos and the humming of bees.
The Lord got out of the palanquin, abandoned his ornaments, et cetera, and became a mendicant together with a thousand kings, while observing a two-day fast, on the fifth day of the black half of Vaisakha in the afternoon, (the moon being) in the Kṛttikās. He attained the fourth knowledge called 'mind-reading.' On the next day the Master broke his fast with rice-pudding in the house of King Vyaghrasinha in the city Cakrapura. The five things, the stream of treasure, et cetera, were made there by the gods; but a platform of jewels was made by Vyaghra. sinha on the place of the Lord's feet.
His omniscience (80-90)
Free from attachment, unhindered like the wind, the Lord wandered over the earth for sixteen years as an ordinary ascetic. One day in his wandering the Lord came to Sahasrāmravana and stood in pratima under a tilaka tree, observing a two-day fast. The Lord's omniscience appeared from the destruction of the destructive karmas on the third day of the bright half of Caitra, the moon being in Kṛttikā. The four classes of gods with their Indras came immediately and made a samavasaraṇa adorned with three walls. Setting his feet on golden lotuses moved by the gods, the Lord entered the samavasaraṇa by the east door. There the Teacher of the World, the Dharmacakrin, circumambulated the caitya-tree which was four hundred and twenty bows high. Saying "Reverence to the congregation," the Master sat down, facing the east, on the eastern lion-throne on a dais