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 KUNTHUSVĀMICARITRA
ceased preaching and Svayambhu, occupying the Master's foot-stool, delivered a sermon. At the end of the second watch he ended his sermon; and the gods, et cetera, bowed to Sri Kunthu and went to their respective abodes.
Sāsanadevatās (115-119)
Originating in the congregation, the Yakṣa Gandharva, with a hansa for a vehicle, dark, with one right arm in the boon-granting position and one holding a noose, with left arms holding a citron and a goad, became the messengerdeity of Sri Kunthunatha. Originating in that congregation, the goddess Balā, fair-bodied, with a peacock for a vehicle, with right arms holding a citron and a trident, with left arms holding a muṣandhi and a lotus, always near, became the Lord's messenger-deity.
His congregation (120-125)
Then the Teacher of the World, never deserted by them, wandered elsewhere from that place for the benefit of souls capable of emancipation. Sixty thousand monks, the same number plus six hundred nuns, six hundred and seventy who knew the fourteen purvas, twenty-five hundred who had clairvoyant knowledge, thirty-three hundred and forty who had mind-reading knowledge, thirty-two hundred omniscients, forty-nine hundred who possessed the art of transformation, two thousand disputants, one lac and nine hundred and twenty laymen, and three lacs and eighty-one thousand laywomen composed the Lord's retinue as he wandered from the time of his omniscience.
8 119. A round club of wood, studded with iron nails, according to Hemacandra's Seṣanāmamālā 151 (1693 in ed. in Bibl.), quoted in com. to Abhi. 3. 451. The spelling there used is muşundhi, one of the numerous variations which include bhusandhi and its variants. Its meaning is also variously interpreted (see II, n. 128), but Hem.'s definition should apply to his own use. My former leaning toward 'firearm' must be revised.