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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Chapter V
The Second Previous Bhava.
17. After death, the Soul of Nayasara, who had acquired Samyaktva from the Guru Mahārāja, was born during the second Bhava as a celestial being in Saudharma Dèva-loka eluń taste and was transformed into a perfect being within an AntarMuhurta a au (i. e. one samaya less than two Ghatiks or one Muhurta i. e. 48 minutes) with an age-limit of one Palyopama. As soon as he was born in the Upapāta Sayyā 3_,-the celestial bed,-the servant-gods began to utter Jaya Jay& *Nandā! Jaya Jaya Bhaddā ! जय जय नंदा! जयजय भद्दा ! Victory to the Prospersous! Victory to the Worthy person ! and did their appropriate work. The Dèva, then, began to pass his time sportively, getting himself engrossed in enjoyments, while amusing himself at various pleasure-grounds with charming divine young females adorned with wreaths of pearles hanging on their breasts, with faces resembling blue-lotuses adorned with leaflike marks of various shapes painted on their pure white cheeks, with handsome gold bracelets on their hands; and he began to celebrate Aṭṭhai Mahotsava 1r #gterq-a festival lasting for eight days,-full of extreme joy, on Nandiśvara () and other continents on the five auspicious occasions like descent from heaven, birth, dîksā etc. of Tirthankaras, leaving aside all his amusing sports; and thinking thus within himself, "These are like ships to a vowless individual like myself, for crossing the ocean of the worldly existence, like nectar to those who are distressed by three kinds of miseries, and like the Cintamani fararfor-the precious jewel-in supplying what-so-ever is desired,” he went daily for worshipping the temples of the Siddhas on Himvanta and other very high mountains, riding on divine chariots, and he began to carefully hear the Preaching of the Dharma causing aversion to the world, from the lotus-like lips of the Tirthankara Bhagavāna moving about from place to place, and he began to worship mentally, by speech, and bodily, Sadhus who had become emaciated by practising severe austerities and other valuable virtues.
In this way, he lived as a celestial being for one Palyopam.
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