International Journal Of Jaina Studies Vol 01 To 03 2005 To 2007

SR No.: 022773
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Peter Flugel
Publisher: Hindi Granth Karyalay
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 202
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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58. śāstrôkta-vidhinä bhaktyā pūjām āstâhnikim vyadhāt.
catur-mukham Rathôvartam sarvato bhadram ürjitam
With devotion62 in the way expressed in the śāstras, he performed an eight day půjā.63 Rathāvarta64 has four points of access (and is) quite good and important,
59. kalpa-vrksam ca dinebhyo dadad dānam a-väritam
tad-vilokva janāḥ sarve tat-prāmānyāt svayam ca tat 60. stotum ārebhire bhaktvā mandalam canda-rocişah
tadã-prabhrti loke 'smin babhūvârkó-pasevanam
(and there is) a wishing tree that gives any presents to the distressed. All the people who saw thal, of their own accord began piously to praise the sun's disk because of its evidence. From that time on the sun has been worshipped in this world.
61. athânyadā kilânandos mahît sirasi buddhavan
palitam dalavad vauvanârthinām hrdavam dvidhā
Then the wise king Ananda one day tore a grey hair on his head in two66 - a critical phenomenon for those who strive after youthfulness.
62. tan-nimitta-samudbhūta-nirvego jyestha-sünave
sâbhișekam nijam rājyam datvâdatta-sprham tapaḥ
02 See on this, e.g., Cort 2002: 59, 86.
63 This line repetes the content of vs 44 supra and is therefore superfluous.
64 Either the tirtha of Mbh 3,82,21 south of the river Sarasvati or the mountain near Mt. Kuñjarāvatta in Vidisā (north of Sanchi; Jain 1984: 406; Mehta & Chandra 1972 s.v. Rahāvatta); the former, too, has to be climbed and thus is a mountain. - I see no semantical connection of the stanzas 58cd-60 with the context, all the more since the accusative Rathâvartam seems up in the air; the verses look like a note on the Jinas in the sun in vs 56. This is apparently one of the very condensed and even incomplete" (Alsdorf 1974: 132) passages.
65 Text: Anandan
66 On this topos see Hertel 1908: 223.
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