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Bhagavai 3:1:21-22
-:25:sämannapariyāgam pāuṇittă, addhamāsiyāe samlehaņāe attānamjhüsettā, tīsam bhattāim anasanäe chedettä äloiya-padikkamte samähipatte kõlamāse kälam kiccā īsāne kappe sayamsi vimānamsi uvavāyasabhāe devasayanijjamsi devadūsamtarie amgulassa asamkhejjaibhāgamettie ogāhanāe īsānssa devimdassa devaranno sāmāniyadevatāeuvavanne. jā tisae vattavvayā sacceva aparisesā kurudattaputte vi navaram sātirege do kevalakappe jambuddīve dīve, ava.sesam tam ceva. evam sāmāniya-tāvattīsaga-logapāla-aggamahisīņam jāva esa nam goyamā! īsānassa devimdassa devaranno egamegāe aggamahisie devie ayameyārūve visae visayamette buie, no ceva nam sampattie vikuvvimsu vā vikuvvati vā vikuvvisati
vā.
If, O Lord, Iśāna, the chief and the king of gods, is possessed of such great fortune ...... up to the mastership in creating such protean bodies, then, possessed of how great fortune, etc., is the Ascetic Kurudattaputra who was the disciple of your goodself, the beloved of gods, and who was by nature virtuous ..... up to modest, observed three continuous fasts, taking single rough cereal as breakfast and practising austerity with upraised arms, facing the sun, exposing his body to the sun on the sunbaked ground and completing six full months of ascetic life, emaciating himself by fortnight long scrapping penance, observing fast unto death by missing thirty meals and having confessed the lapses and resolved not to repeat them again, in the state of ecstasy, he passed away in due course taking birth in the Isäna heaven, in his own celestial abode in the Hall of birth by descent, on celestial bed covered by celestial wrapper in the Hall of birth by descent, his physical height being an innumerableth part of finger-breadth, incarnating as a co-chief god to īšāna, the chief and the king of gods. Here, in the case of Kurudattaputra follows the same description as in the case of Tişyaka, excepting that the area filled up by the protean bodies is equal to the area slightly bigger than two complete Jambū islands. A similar description follows here about cochiefs, ministers, custodians and chief queens ...... up to 'O Gautama, the subject of the protean power of such chief queen of Iśāna, the chief and the king of gods, is merely the description of her domain, though she did never exercise such protean power in the past, nor does she exercise such power in the present, nor will she do so in the future'.
Bhāsya 1. Exposing the body to the sun on the sunbaked ground
For sunbaked ground, see Bhāsya on Bha. 2.62.
Text
3.22 evam sanamkumäre vi, navaram-cattāri kevalakappe jambuddive dive,
adutturam ca ņam tiriyamasamkhejje.
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