Prakrit Jainshastra aur Ahimsa Shodh Samsthan Vaishali Swarna Jayanti Gaurav Granth

SR No.: 012064
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rushabhchand Jain
Publisher: Prakrit Jainshastra aur Ahimsa Shodh Samsthan Vaishali
Publication Year: 2010
Total Pages: 520
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Smruti_Granth & Articles
File Size: 13 MB

Page 180

162
स्वर्ण-जयन्ती गौरव-ग्रन्थ
privation and hardship, for his strictly adhering to the rules of penance, and no less for his indifference to pleasure and pain. He was called Sramana by the people; as he remained constantly engaged in austerities with spontaneous happiness.
Being son of a king, he had many worldly pleasures, comforts, and services at his command. But at the age of thirty, when his parents died, with the permission of his elders he left his family and royal household, gave up his worldly possessions, and become a monk in search of a solution to eliminate pain, sorrow, and sufferings. After observing fast for two days and having put on one garment, he left for a park known as Jñātskhanda in a palanquin named Chandraprabhā. He descended from the palanquin under an Asoka tree, took off his ornaments, plucked out his hair in five handfuls and entered the state of houselessness. For a year and a month since he renounced the world, Mahavira did not leave off his robe. Thereafter he gave up his robe and became unclothed.
He spent the next twelve years of presence and mediation he attained omniscience at the age of forty-two, and thereafter for thirty years to preach his religion in Northern India. During this period, his spiritual powers fully developed and at the end he realized perfect perception, knowledge, power, and bliss.
In the thirteenth year of his yogic life, in course of wandering on the outskirts of the village called Jambhia, situated on the bank of the river Rjubālukā, near the temple of a Yakṣa named Vaiyāvstta, in the fields of a man named Samaga (Syāmaka), on the tenth day of the bright fortnight of the month of Vaišākha, in the fourth prahar (part) of the day, under the auspices of the star Uttrāfālguni, at the foot of a śāla tree, and in the stage of a two days fast and deep meditation Mahavira attained the Kevalajñāna or the perfect enlightenment. After he realized this knowledge, he wandered on, knowing and seeing all the actual tendencies and attitudes of minds, speeches and bodies of all creatures in all the worlds. The trumpets of the gods sounded in the heavens. Then the Sramaņa Lord Mahavira became Arhat, Jina, Kevali, all knowing and all