Jaina Sutras 01 Acharang Sutra and Kalpa Sutra

SR No.: 011059
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Max Muller
Total Pages: 396
Language: English
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KALPA SUTRA.
for a second time he transformed himself through his magical power of transformation, and produced the definitive form (which gods adopt on entering the world of men); having done so, he passed with that excellent, hasty, trembling, active, impetuous, victorious, exalted, and quick divine motion of the gods right through numberless continents and oceans, and arrived in Gambudvipa, in Bharatavarsha, in the brahmanical part of the town Kundagrâma, at the house of the Brahmana Rishabhadatta, where the Brâhmant Devânandâ dwelt. Having arrived there, he made his bow in the sight of the Venerable Ascetic Mahâvira, and cast the Brahmani Devânandâ, together with her retinue, into a deep sleep; then he took off all unclean particles, and brought forth the clean particles, and saying, 'May the Venerable One permit me,' he took the Venerable Ascetic Mahâvira in the folded palms of his hands without hurting him. Thus he went to the Kshatriya part of the town Kundagrâma, to the house of the Kshatriya Siddhârtha, where the Kshatriyânt Trisalâ dwelt; he cast her and her attendants into a deep sleep, took off all unclean particles, and brought forth the clean particles, and placed the embryo of the Venerable Ascetic Mahâvira in the womb of the Kshatriyânî Trisalâ, and the embryo of the Kshatriyânt Trisalâ he placed in the womb of the Brahmani Devânandâ of the Gâlandharâyana gotra. Having done so, he returned in that direction in which he had come1. (28) With that excellent, &c. (see § 28), divine motion
1 The contents of §§ 14-28 are contained in Âkârânga Sutra II, 15, § 4.
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