Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1

SR No.: 008001
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 650
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 15 MB

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Sri Gautama Swāmi bashfully asked Sraniana Bhagavan Mahāvîra the cause of his animosity. To which he replied “O Gautama! When you narrated the noble qualities of a Tirthankara before the farmer, he cut the tie of Mithyātva by meditating upon these qualities, and so, you, as well as, he, acquired great benefit. Now I will tell you the cause of his animosity towards me.
• I Was a Vásudeva nanied Tripristha, son of King Prajāpati in Putanapur. There was a Prati-vasudeva named Ašvagriva, who was a lord of the three continents, at the time. One day Prati-vāsudeva Ašvagriva asked an astrologer, a question about bis death. The astrologer said " Your death will be caused by Tripristha.” Prati-vāsudeva Ašvagriva there-after bearing an intense feeling of animosity towards Tripristha Kumāra, tried a number of methods of killing him, but all his efforts proved fruitless. A lion was daily harrassing people in a rice-field near & forest belonging to Ašvagriva. No one was able to kill the lion Prati-vāsuddva Ašvagriva ordered all his tributary kings to go and protect the rice-field by turns. One day, thereby, king Prajapati's turn arrived. Tripristha Kumāra prevented his father from going to the ricc-field and he went there alone in a chariot, with only one chariteer. Going to the rice-field, Tripristha Kumāra called out the lion. Tlic lion at once rushed to warıls Tripristha Kumāra, who taking hulil of the two lips of the lon, tore him off like a closed cavity of a shell. The dying lion began to blame himself.--"0! being a lion myself, I am killed only by a human being, 'On seeing the lion lamenting thus, the charioteer of Tripristha Vāsu lèva sail, with sweet words for the purpose of pacifying huur- O lion! this Kumāra is to be a Vasudeva. Do not think him to be a poor human being. You are killed by a great sovereign. Why do you lament?
- Tripristha Kumāra is the only Sinha fh Lion-courageous man in the human world and you are a lion burn in a Tiryanca womb." Having heard these soothing words, the liou died in perfeot peace.