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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come from their respective places joyfully as at the new moon. Lord, I do not ask anything else from you, but I ask this: May you always be my lord in birth after birth."
CHAPTER TWO
Life before initiation (41-47)
After this hymn of praise, the Vasava of Saudharma took the Lord, went to Ibhapura (Hastinapura), and put him at Queen Devi's side. King Sudarśana celebrated his son's birth-festival and named him Ara because Devi had seen a spoke of a wheel (ara) in a dream. Allowed to play with playthings by goddesses who were in the form of nurses and gods who had become friends, the Lord gradually grew up. At the proper time, Aranatha, thirty bows tall, married princesses, because of respect for his father's command. When twenty-one thousand years had passed since his birth, the Supreme Lord took the burden of the kingdom at his father's command.
When the same amount of time had passed with the Lord as king, the cakra-jewel which moves in the air appeared in the armory. Following the cakra with the thirteen other jewels, Lord Ara conquered Bharata in four hundred years.
Initiation (48-59)
When the same amount of time had passed with the Master as cakrin, he was told by the Lokantikas, "Found a congregation." After giving gifts for a year, he gave the kingdom to his son Aravinda and went to Sahasrāmravaṇa in the palanquin Vaijayanti. The Jina, whose mark is a nandyāvarta, entered the garden whose trees were occupied by cuckoos as silent as monks vowed to silence; whose travelers were halted by the songs of milk-maids in the purple cane-plantation;1 made into a refuge by peacocks whose tails had been shed, as if ashamed at the sight of the wealth of hair of the sporting women from the city;
14 50. Roxburgh describes a 'purple sugar-cane,' which kṛṣṇekṣu would be presumably, with also an allusion to Kṛṣṇa and the gopis.