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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Future Vāsudevas (203–204) Nandi, Nandimitra, Sundarabāhuka, Mahābāhu, Atibala, Mahābala, Bala, Dviprstha, Tripțştha, are the nine (future) Ardhacakrins (Vāsudevas).
Future Rāmas (204–205) And the Rāmas with ever increasing preeminence: Bala (will be) the first of them; Jayanta, Ajita, Dharma, Suprabha, Sudarśana, Ananda, Nandana, and Padma, the last Rāma.
Future Prativasudevas (206–207) These will be the Pratyardhacakrins (Prativāsudevas): Tilaka, Lohajanghaka, Vajrajangha, Kesarin, Bali, Prahlāda, Aparājita, Bhima, and Sugriva, the ninth. These will be the sixty-three illustrious persons in utsarpiņi.”
Vira's prophecy about future of Jainism (208–216)
Sudharman, the first of gaṇabhịts, asked Śrī Vira, when he had told this, “When will the extirpation of omniscience, et cetera take place?" Master said: “When so much time after my emancipation has passed, there will be no omniscience after your disciple, Jambū. Omniscience being extirpated, there will be no mind-reading knowledge, no pulāka-magic power,261 no supreme clairvoyance. There will be no ladders of subsidence and destruction of karma, no āhāraka-body,262 no Jinakalpa,263 no three controls. Your disciple Jambū will attain emancipation and will know the fourteen pūrvas; Jambū's disciple, Prabhava, will know all the pūrvas. His disciple, Sayyambhava, will know twelve
261 210. See I, n. 112. A Pulāka is the first of the 5 divisions of Nirgranthas.
262 211. A body which may be acquired by one who knows the 14 pûrvas, by which he may go to another world. See I, n. 157.
263 211. The Puritanical practices.
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