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Verse 120
अर्हच्चरणसपर्यामहानुभावं महात्मनामवदत् । भेकः प्रमोदमत्तः कुसुमेनैकेन राजगृहे ॥१२० ॥
सामान्यार्थ - हर्ष से प्रमत्त मेंढक ने राजगृह नगर में एक पुष्प के द्वारा भव्य जीवों के आगे अरिहन्त भगवान् के चरणों की पूजा का माहात्म्य प्रकट किया
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A frog, intoxicated with joy and with just a petal of a flower had shown to worthy (bhavya) souls, in the town of Rājagriha, the glory of worshipping the Lotus Feet of Lord Jina.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Jain, Champat Rai gives the gist of the story:
The reference is to the jīva of a frog who obtained deva-birth in the heaven-worlds by devotion to the last Tīrthankara, Bhagwan Mahāvīra. This particular soul happened to be a miser in its previous incarnation when its evil karmas caused it to be re-born as a frog in the town of Rājagriha (Patna District). When the Holy Tīrthařkara visited that place, the frog recovered the memory of his past life owing to the fruition of good karmas, and coming to know the joyous tidings of the arrival of the Holy Tīrthankara, proceeded, full of devotion and love, to offer obeisance to the Lord. He was, however, crushed on the way under the foot of one of the elephants of the royal procession, which was also proceeding towards the same goal. Having died under the most auspicious circumstances, he was re-born in one of the heavens, and immediately descended to the earth to worship the source of his great good luck.
Jain, Champat Rai (1917), "Ratnakarnda-śrāvakāchāra (or The Householder's Dharma)”, p. 56.
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