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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ŚRI ARANATHACARITRA
the bright half of Phālguna, the moon being in Revati, and descended into the womb of the chief-queen Devi. The queen, comfortably asleep, in the last part of the night saw the fourteen great dreams indicating the birth of a Tīrthakrt. The embryo, possessing three kinds of knowledge, grew secretly, not causing her any pain, increasing the beauty of her body. On the tenth day of the bright half of Märga in Revati, she bore a son, the color of gold, marked with a nandyāvarta, with all the marks. The fifty-six Dikkumāris performed the birth-rites and the sixty-four Väsavas gave the bath on Meru. After he had anointed him, made a pūjā, waved the light, et cetera, the Indra of Saudharma began to praise the Master.
Stuti (33-40) “Reverence to you, the eighteenth Arhat of whom the eighteen faults 12 are destroyed, to be meditated upon by those having the eighteen kinds of chastity, 18 Lord. Just as the three kinds of knowledge were at home in you from the womb, so were all of these three worlds, Tirthanātha. The world has been overpowered for a long time by the robbers~love, hate, et cetera, who gave a sleeping-charm of delusion. Now rescue it, Master. Like a chariot on the road by the weary, like a river by sufferers from thirst, like the shade of a tree by persons burned by the sun, like a raft by drowning persons, like a cure by the sick, like a light by those blind from darkness, like the sun by sufferers from cold, like a guide by persons lost on the road, like a fire by persons afraid of tigers, you have been found now as a lord by us bereaved of a lord for a long time, Tirtha. nätha. Obtaining you as a lord, gods, asuras, and men
12 33. Obstacles to giving, to receiving, to strength, to enjoyment of objects used once, to enjoyment of objects used repeatedly, laughter, liking (for objects), dislike (of objects), fear, disgust, sorrow, sexual love, wrong-belief, ignorance, sleep, lack of self-control, love, hatred. Abhi. 1. 72-73 and com.
18 33. See I, p. 206.