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Bhagavai 3:2:112
excellent Asoka tree in the Asoka garden at the city of Sumsumārapura in the continent of Bhārata, in the Island of Jambū, with the resolve of a three day fast, undertaking a nightlong great intensive course of penance. It will be better for me to denigrate Sakra, the chief and the king of gods, seeking the support of the Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra. Thinking thus, he ponders; having pondered, he got up from the bed, put on the celestial robe. Putting on the celestial robe, he reaches the Sudharmā hall and the place of the arsenal named Coppāla. Reaching there, he lifts up the club-gem' (a weapon) in his hand. Lifting up the club-gem, not depending on anybody else, alone he passes through the middle of the capital of Camaracañcā, infuriated with extreme anger. Having done so, he arrived at the Utpāta (takeoff) mountain called Tigimcchikūta.? Then he exercises his protean power. Exercising his protean power, ...... up to he creates the para-protean body. Having done so, he proceeded, in speed that was high, quick, hasty, terrible, accelerating, topmost like that of lion's rapid, swift and celestial, in horizontal direction through innumerable Islands and oceans and consecutively reached the Island of Jambūdvīpa, the continent of Bhārata, the city of Sumsumärapura, the Aśoka garden, the excellent Asoka tree, the stone slab and the spot in my vicinity. Having reached there, he circumambulated me, keeping me to the right, thrice. Having done so, he offered homage and obeisance to me. Having offered homage and obeisance to me, he addressed me thus: O Lord, with your support, I wish to denigrate Sakra, the chief and the king of gods. Having said so, he reached the north-eastern corner. Having reached there, he created the protean body. Having done so, he created the second paraprotean body that was most terrible, of terrible shape, dreadful, of dreadful shape, terrific (bhāsura), fearful, deep, terror-producing, as dark as the midnight of the fifteenth night of dark fortnight and a heap of black beans, of the height of one hundred thousand yojanas. Having done so, he threw his arms upward, jumped, roared, neighed like horse, gargled like elephant, rattled like chariot, patted on the earth with feet, slapped on the earth with feet, roared like the lion, patting sometimes forward, sometimes backward, cuts the tripadī" (like a wrestler playing a trick), raises up the left arm, distorts his face by bending it by the nails of the forefinger and the thumb of the right arm and murmurs loudly. Then, he flew alone, without any other support, upward in the sky in this terrible posture with the club-gem. It appeared as if he was agitating the underworld, shaking the earth, contracting the horizontal region, exploding the sky, sometimes roaring, sometimes sparkling like lightening, sometimes raining, sometimes raising the dust and sometimes creating dense darkness, and repeatedly frightening the forest gods, dividing the luminous gods in two parts, dispersing the sentinel gods, brandishing the club-gem in the sky and rebuking. Thus, he reached the Sudharmā Hall, the saudharmāvatamsaka space-abode, passing through innumerable Islands and oceans in the horizontal region with speed
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