Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

SR No.: 001005
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1962
Total Pages: 507
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 11 MB

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PREVIOUS INCARNATIONS OF ARISTANEMI
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bestowing unequaled benefits, like a rainy season cloud, on the world of living creatures, thou ocean of compassion? Citragati asked permission of Sumitra, who continued talking like this and had entered into friendship, to go to his own city. Sumitra said: 'Brother, a kevalin, named Suyaśas, is now wandering in places near here. You may go after paying homage to him when he has come here in course of time. Pass the time until his arrival right here. "
Citragati agreed and spent several days, amusing himself pleasantly with him, as if they were twins. Both went to a -garden one day and the kevalin, Muni Suyaśas, came there like a living wishing-tree. They circumambulated and paid homage to him who was standing on golden lotuses and surrounded by gods, his arrival long desired, and sat down.
King Sugriva heard about it, and came and paid homage to the muni. He delivered a sermon that was daylight for the sleep of delusion. At the end of the sermon Citragati bowed to the muni and said: "I have been well enlightened about dharma by you devoted to compassion. For a long time I have not known laymanship even though it is hereditary in the family, like one not sharing a treasure before him, Lord. Sumitra here has been an unequaled benefactor by whom Your Reverence, the teacher of such dharma, was pointed out to me.
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With these words, Citragati, wise, adopted lay-dharma completely along with right-belief under the muni.
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Fate of Bhadra (182-189)
Sugriva bowed to the muni and asked, " Blessed One, where has she, who gave the poison to my noble son, gone?" The muni replied: "She ran away into a forest and was handed over to a village-chief by robbers who had seized her ornaments, et cetera. Then she was sold by the village-chief to a merchant and, running away, she was burned in a great forest-fire. As she died absorbed in cruel meditation,18 she went to the first
18 185. Raudradhyāna. See I, n. 8.
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