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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CHAPTER ONE
Citragati's presence. Citragati went to his own city; and Sumitra, intelligent, learned nine purvas,22 lacking a little, under his guru. Sumitra wandering alone after he had received his guru's permission,23 went to the Magadhas and stood in kāyotsarga 24 outside a village. Padma, his half-brother, came there as he roamed about and saw him benefiting all living creatures, engaged in meditation, firm as a mountain. Evilminded Padma shot him in the heart with an arrow drawn to his ear, facing hell as if for a meeting with his mother.
He has not caused me any loss of dharma by killing me, but on the other hand has conferred a benefit by the friendly act of destroying karma. I wronged him, since the kingdom was not given (to him) then. May he pardon me and may all other creatures pardon me, also.
Meditating thus, final renunciation having been made and the formula of homage recalled, Sumitra died and became a Sāmānika in Brahmaloka. Padma fled, was bitten by a cobra in the night, died, and became an inhabitant of the seventh hell.
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When Citragati had grieved over Sumitra's death for a long time, he, noble, made a pilgrimage to a temple of the eternal Arhats.25 Many lords of the Khecaras met there on the pilgrimage and Anangasinha came with his daughter Ratnavati. Citragati performed various kinds of worship to the eternal Arhats and, his body horripilated, recited a hymn of praise in a voice beautiful with devotion. Knowing this by clairvoyance, the god Sumitra came there with gods and rained flowers on him. All the Khecaras, delighted, praised Citragati and Anangasinha recognized that he was the very one who was to
22 216. Of the original fourteen. As time went on, fewer and fewer were learned. They were all lost eventually.
23 217. Sadhus do not travel alone normally.
24 217. Indifference to the body by one standing or sitting, with the arms hanging down, is called kayotsarga. Yog. 4.133. It differs from pratimă in that standing is necessary in pratima.
25 224. See III, n. 314; I, n. 404.