Parshvabhyuday

SR No.: 001704
Original Sutra Author: Jinsenacharya
Author: M G Kothari
Publisher: Gulabchand Hirachand Doshi
Total Pages: 844
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Literature, & Mythology
File Size: 16 MB

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occupied by the ladies of the sky-wanderers, having his beautiful summits worthy of being resorted to by sages deserving liberation in the future, a deserving place for the growth of creepers and shrubs furnished with flowers, having his skirts covered over with wild mango trees glistening owing to their fruits, would impel Him to hasten up for taking rest in the near future. When He, resembling (in colour ) an oiled braid of hair, would have ascended the summit of the Amrakūta mountain, He would excite various doubts as "Is this, occupying the middle part of this mountain, a black serpent with his body turned in a circular form or Has this mountain worn a garland of blue lotuses ? ” in the hearts of the simple ladies of the Vidyādharas. When He, settling just for a moment upon a cavern of that mountain, Amrakūța, assuming charming beauty like that of a saphire very often, would certainly become worthy of being looked at by the heavenly couples as a thin delicate piece of the sky reached the earth owing to its being abandoned by the heaven. The mountain, dark in the middle part, variagated in the lower part on account of various flowery trees grown up there, assuming white colour in the remaining expansion of the surface and looking like the breast of the earth, would assume extreme beauty worthy of being praised by the couples of gods at the time when He, possessing deep blue splendour, would assume the form of a garland. He, having stayed for a moment on the mountain, having bowers of creepers made use of by the wives of the forest wanderers, would have an opportunity to see the Kinnara-females, possessing beautiful buttocks, having large teeth, possessing long and acquiline noses, moving slowly on account of the heaviness of their fleshy and elevated breasts, and having their nails loosened on account of their being bruised by stones. Having left the caverns, He should anyhow go away from the mountain and with motion rendered speedy owing to the water being discharged, should not postpone His departure. Having