Jaina Community a Social Survey

SR No.: 007019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vilas Sangve
Publisher: Popular Book Depot Bombay
Publication Year: 1980
Total Pages: 484
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Jaina Community-A Social Survey
(29) Svagurusthänava pti: After transferring all his duties to his worthy disciple, he should assume the position of an Acharya, i. e., the head of the ascetics.
(30) Niḥsangatvātmabhavana
Relying on his disciple he should devote his time to self-meditation only. (31) Yoganirvanasam prapti : By following supreme austerities he should concentrate only on the nature of the self (32) Yoganirvanasadhana: Discarding food and care of the body, he should aim at total concentration.
(33) Indropapada: After death he goes to the status of an Indra, i. e., the king of gods, by virtue of his merits. (34) Indrabhisheka: Gods then consecrate him as an Indra. (35 & 36) Vidhidana and Sukhodaya: Having ascended the throne of Indra, he enjoys the happiness in the heaven. (37) Indratyaga: He then abandons the pleasures of heaven. (38) Avatara: He descends down from the heaven to the earth to become a Tīrthankara.
(39) Hiranyajanmata: Then the soul enters the embryo of a lady who is to give birth to a Tirthankara.
(40) Mandarendrabhisheka : When he is born, Indra worships him on the Meru mountain.
(41) Gurupu jana: Indra worships this to be Tirthankara in childhood.
(42) Yauvaraiya
He gets the position of an heir-apparent
in his young age.
(43) Svara jya: He secures the power over whole empire. (44) Chakralabha: He acquires the chakra, that is, the nine stores and the fourteen jewels.
(45) Digvijaya: He starts for the conquest of the whole universe.
(46) Chakrabhisheka: The conquest is celebrated.
(47) Samrajya: He guides the subsidiary kings in their duties towards their subjects.
(48) Nishkranti: He then gives his empire to the eldest son and becomes an ascetic.