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14
Harivansh Purana
She conceived the Lord of the womb, the glorious, beloved one, after experiencing auspicious dreams. ||21||
There were seventy-five years, eight and a half months remaining in the fourth period, the period of decline and prosperity. ||22||
On the sixth day of the bright fortnight of Ashadha, the worthy one was conceived, when the moon was in the Uttara Phalguni constellation. ||23||
Just as the sun hidden within the clouds adorns the rainy season, so too did the hidden womb adorn the mother, Priyakarini, who was adorned by the Dikkumari, radiant in form, with full breasts. ||24||
After nine months and eight days, when the moon was in the Uttara Phalguni constellation, the Lord was born. ||25||
Then, due to the greatness of the last Tirthankara, the thrones and crowns shook, and the lords of the gods, knowing the events, bowed down. ||26||
Hearing the sound of conch shells in the abodes of the gods, drums in the abodes of the Vyantaras, lions in the abodes of the Jyotishis, and bells in the abodes of the Kalpavasis, the gods, who were like the churning ocean, who were accompanied by seven types of armies, who were with their wives, and who were adorned with various ornaments, arrived in the city of Kundapura. ||27-28||
The gods, led by Indra, circumambulated the city three times and bowed down to the Tirthankara, who had a face like the moon, and to his parents. ||29||
Indrani, bowing down in humility, placed a different child, created by divine magic, near the sleeping mother, and taking the Tirthankara, handed him over to Indra. ||30||
Indra, taking him in his lotus hands, worshipped him for a long time and placed him in a garden of lotus flowers, created by magic, with a thousand eyes. ||31||
Then, Indra placed the Lord on the very tall elephant, Airavata, whose body was as bright as the moon, who seemed like the peaks of Mount Meru, and who was shedding streams of nectar from his trunk. ||32||
Whose cheeks were adorned with swarms of bees due to the fragrance of nectar, and who seemed like the peaks of Mount Meru,
1. The Lord of the womb's auspiciousness.
2. Read as "G".
3. Adorned by the Dikkumari.
4. Parents.