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praying Jina, and the Kinnara ladies would be singing loudly the victory over the three bodies in a manner producing confused noise, there the concert of the protector of living beings [i. e. Jina] would be indeed made perfect.
Having passed over all the beautiful scenes of the regions adjoining to the Himalaya mauntain, He should take the Kraunca defile which is in the proximity of it, which is conjectured as the gate for the swans and as the path of the glory of Parasurāma in the works of the learned, ignorant of the facts, for the door, carved into the rocks of the caves of the Vijayardha mountain by means of the sceptre of a Cakravartin. He, who renounced all the worldly attachments, appearing beautiful owing to His horizontal length, should, on account of His having determined to go to the Himalayas, the abode of many wonders, proceed through the Kraunca defile to the northern direction. Like a big black serpent coming out of a hole, He, resembling the black foot of sage Viṣṇukumāra raised high up for pounding down Bali, should immediately rush out of the defile of that mountain. On rushing out of the defile of that mountain like a volume of smoke and having gone further high up, He should become the guest of the Kailasa mountain which resembles the loud laughter of the three-eyed god [i. e. the lord of the north-east direction ] gathered into a heap every day at the time of the beginning [ or performance ] of a dance in front of the image of the first lord, on account of the foamy flows, possessing lustre whiter than that of milk, rushing down on all sides, and owing to the lofty peaks white like lotuses, which has stood overspreading the sky, which has its parts in the form of its peaks raised high up like the arms of the ten-mouthed one [i. e. Ravana], which possess big rocks appearing to the advantage owing to their being beset with big and white crystals, and which serves as a mirror for the heavenly damsels śambara believed that the mountain, white like a piece of a tusk of an elephant cut off very
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| SR No. | 001704 |
| Book Title | Parshvabhyuday |
| Original Sutra Author | Jinsenacharya |
| Author | M G Kothari |
| Publisher | Gulabchand Hirachand Doshi |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 844 |
| Language | Sanskrit, English |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari, Literature, & Mythology |
| File Size | 16 MB |