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Bhagavai 3:1:17
bhavam gacchai (tam jahā-āhārapajjattie, sarīrapajjattle, imdiyapajjattie, änapäṇupajjattie, bhāsāmaṇapajjattie.
tae nam tam tisayam devam pamcavihãe pajjattle pajjattibhavam gayam samāṇam sāmāniyaparisovavannaya deva karayalapariggahiyam dasanaham sirasavattam matthae amjalim kattu jaenam vijaenam vaddhāvimti vaddhāvittā evam vayāsī— aho nam deväṇuppiehim diva deviddhi diva devajjui divve devānubhave laddhe patte abhisamannägae, järisiyäṇam deväṇupiehim devā deviddhi diva devajjut divve devāṇubhāve laddhe patte abhisamaṇāgae, tārisiyāṇam sakeņa vi devimdena devaraṇṇā divvā deviddhi jäva abhisamaṇṇāgae. jārisiya nam sakenam devimdenam devaranna divvā deviddhi jāva abhisamanṇāgae, tärisiyā nam deväṇuppiehim divvä deviddhi jāva abhisamannägae.
se nam bhamte! tīsue deve kemahiḍdhie jāva kevatiyam ca nam pabhi vikkuvvittae?
gayamā! mahiḍdhie jāva mahanubhäge, se nam tattha sayasa vimāṇassa, cauṛha sāmāṇiyasāhassiņam, cauṛham aggamahisiṇam saparivārāṇam, tinham parissaṇam, sattaṇham aniyaṇam, sattaṇham aniyāhivaiņam, solasaṇam ayarakkhadevasāhassīņam, annesim ca bahūņam vemāniyāṇam devāṇam, deviņa ya jāva viharai. emahiddhie java evatiyam ca nam pabhů vikuvvittae, se jahānāmae juvatim juvane hattheṇam hatthe genhejjä, jaheva sakkassa taheva java esa nam goyama! tisayassa devassa ayameyarave visae visayamette buie, no ceva nam sampattie vikuvvimsu va vikuvvati va vikuvissati vä.
If, O Lord, Sakra, the chief and the king of gods, is possessed of such great fortune up to mastership in creating such protean bodies, then (how great is the fortune...... up to the mastership of creating the protean bodies, possessed of by would-be god (viz.,) the Ascetic Tisyaka who is a disciple of your good self, the beloved of gods, who is by nature virtuous, peaceful, or attenuated anger, pride, deceit and greed, humble, self-absorbed and modest, sanctifying his soul by practising continuous fasts, thus completing eight years of ascetic life, emaciating himself by a month-long scraping penance, observing the fast unto death by missing all sixty meals, and having confessed the lapses and having resolved not to repeating them again, the state of ecstasy, he passed away in due course taking birth in the Saudharma heaven, in his own celestial abode, in the hall of birth by descent, at the place of birth on celestial bed, covered by celestial wrapper,' his physical height being an innumerableth part of the finger-breadth, incarnating as a co-chief god to Sakra, the chief and the king of gods.
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Then, the god Tişyaka, just born, attains five-fold maturations' (viz., alimentary, bodily, sensory, respiratory and vocal). Then, on his attaining the five-fold maturations, the gods born in the assembly of co-chiefs acclaimed him with victory and conquest, by rotating their folded hands displaying their ten nails in front of his face. Having thus acclaimed, they addressed him thus: Oh thou, the beloved of gods, hath achieved, obtained
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