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 ARANĀTHACARITRA
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Jinadāsa, he gave me alms with devotion in the city Ratnapura at the end of a four-month fast as I was wandering over the earth observing the vows, after abandoning a powerful kingdom in the East Videhas. From that good deed he became a god in Brahmaloka. Then he fell and was born in Kāmpilya in Airāvata in Jambūdvipa, enjoying great wealth. There also he practiced layman's duties, being very powerful. After death he became a god in Acyuta and then he fell and became who he is now. By merit added to merit he enjoys pleasures in this birth. Merit attends upon men everywhere.” :. After explaining this and enlightening many persons, the Blessed One went elsewhere, wandering, destroying the world's delusion. After enjoying pleasures for a long time, Virabhadra became a mendicant in course of time and, seated in the chariot of firm merit, went to heaven.
His congregation (377–382) Fifty thousand noble monks, sixty thousand nuns with strict vows, six hundred and ten who knew the fourteen pūrvas, twenty-six hundred who had clairvoyant knowledge, twenty-five hundred and fifty-one who had mind-reading knowledge, twenty-eight hundred who were omniscient, seventy-three hundred who had the art of transformation, sixteen hundred disputants, two hundred thousand, less sixteen thousand, laymen, and three hundred and seventy-two thousand laywomen constituted the retinue of the Lord wandering over the earth for twenty-one thousand years, less three years, from the time of his omniscience.
Knowing that it was time for his emancipation the Master went to Sammeta with a thousand munis and commenced a fast. At the end of a month on the twelfth day of the bright half of Mārga, the moon being in Pauşņa, the Master and the munis went to the eternal abode.
The Lord lived for eighty-four thousand years, equally divided as prince, king, cakrin, and monk. The