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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ful by trees resembling witace-& kind of figure 45 resembling the tuft or curl of hair on the breast of Vışņu or Krişna or other great personages; it was full of Arriors Mātangas, elephants, just as Atåtts Mātangas or low-class people who inhabit the locality of the town which is free from the other populace. It also contained trees resembling the bow-strings of warriors.
The servants began to out the trees whose trunks were straight, long, spacious, beautiful, and round. While doing this work, it became mid-day, and it was now time for their mid-day meal. Nayasāra was ready to take his meals. The servants placed before him various kinds of delicious food-material prepared for him. At that moment, an idea came up to his mind, " If a hungry mendicant straying away from a caravan, ignorant of right road or from a company of Sramaņas iu i e-Jain or Buddhist monks,-happens to come here as my guest, I will first seed him and, then, I will take my meals ". With this intention in his mind, as Nayasāra was going out and looking forward in all directions, he saw some pious sages who had become separated from the caravan, who were greatly exausted, were greatly overwhelmod by hunger and thirst, and who were burning under the intonse heat of the mid-day Sun, with their clothes drenched in copious perspiration in expectation of the halting place of the caravan. Attracted as they were by the crackling sound of the falling of trees, he saw some sages approaching the place where he bad enoamped with his men. As soon as Nayasāra saw them, he was greatly delighted, and he immediately advanced forward to receive them. Bowing down respectfully before them, and with & compasionate heart, he said “O venerable sages? Why do you walk about in such a country without the help of men ?
"The Sadhus said " " My good friend | We started in company of a caravan. At moal-time, we went to the neighbo uring village in search of water and food. In the mean-while the caravan started on, leaving us behind. We followed the track of the caravan, and arrived into this dense forest."
Nayasūra said " How cruel i Vilest aotion' oo esire for