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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listening to dharma from him, Aparajita installed his son by Pritimati, Padma, on the throne and became a mendicant. At that time his wife, Pritimati, his brothers, Sura and Soma, and his minister Vimalabodha, all followed him into mendicancy. Sixth incarnation as a god (451)
They all practiced austerities, died, and went to the heaven Araṇa. They became Indrasāmānikas, friends of each other. Seventh incarnation as Sankha (452-533)
Now in this Jambudvipa in Bharatavarṣa, there is a city, Hastinapura, the ornament of the Kuru-country. Śrīṣena was its king, resembling the moon. His chief-queen was named Śrīmati, who was like Śri.
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In the last part of the night she saw in a dream, a full moon, white as a conch, entering her lotus-mouth; and she told her husband at dawn. The king was assured by experts: According to the dream the queen will have a son, like the moon, by whom the darkness of all enemies will be destroyed. " Now Aparajita fell and descended into her womb. At the right time she bore a son pure with all the favorable marks. His father named him Sankha with a name that had been caused previously;37 and he grew up, tended by five nurses. He acquired all the arts with ease, making his teacher a mere witness, for they were innate in him, acquired in a former birth.
Vimalabodha's jiva fell from Arana and became Śrīṣena's minister's son, Matiprabha by name, a depository of good qualities. He became attached to Prince Sankha, like Mādhäva to Manmatha, from playing in the sandpile with him and studying with him. Playing with this friend and with other princes in many various games, he (Sankha) attained youth.
37 457. By the moon white as a conch that his mother had seen. It was quite customary for a child to be named after something seen in a dream by his mother.