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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Susama-dışama) remaining (to be passed over ) Bhagavāo Srt Rişabha-ddra Swamin, fasted for six days abstaining from the four varieties of food and drink-materials, keeping his body perfectly rigid in renunciation like a tree, sitting in a squatting posture and having completely destroyed the remaining four Karmas, viz qofte Verdaniya, TT Āyu, A Nāna, and Gatra karaja-along with ten thousand Sādhûs and all of them acquired HIBITE Moksa Pada, Final Emancipation, which is most excellent and persistent,
The thirty-two Indras with their eyes wet with the flow of unceasing tears, bewildered with unbearable agony, went there along with Bharata Cakravartin, bowed down respectfully, and ordered gods to bring logs of wood of fresh #taftia Gosirşa candana, An excellent kind of sandal-wood. TITT Krışņāgurii, Black aloes, and other costly wood-material from pappa Nandana Vana.
A funeral pyre of a circular shape was prepared in the East for the body of Bhagavān Śri Risabha-deve Swāmin.
A pyre in the South was made for the bodies of Sādbūs of Ikşvāku Race, and an extensive square one in the West was prepared with excellent wood for the cremation of the bodies of the rest of the Sādhūs.
The Indras bathed the body of Bhagavān Sri Risabha-deva Swāmin with the water of ficta Kşirodadhi, the Milk Ocean, besmeared it with pure fragrant sandal-paste, and placed it on the funeral pyre prepared for it. Then Bhuvana--pati and other gods bathed and auointed the bodies of the Sādhüs and placerl them over the funeral pyres prepared for them. The WASHIK Agnikumāra gods then ordered by Indra, ignited into blaziny flames the funcral pyres in regular order, with their faces full of deep surrow. Having thus respectfully crematrd their bodies, the Indras went to their respective abodes with their faces darkened with intense grief, and Bharata Narendra also went home with his heart fillel with violent grief. There also, with his body