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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performed a namaskāra to the Siddhas and received the Lakşmi of his ordination, the procuress of the girl Deliverance, 143 lest (he should receive) another attendant (of / from the goddess Laksmī) for the purpose.
131. keśān vimocitāms tasya mustibhiḥ pañcabhiḥ surêt
samabhvarcyâdarān nitvā nyaksipat ksīra-väridhau
The king of the gods tore out his hair in five handfuls,144 worshipped them, brought them away carefully and threw them into the Milk Ocean.
132. åtta-sāmāyikah suddhyā caturtha-jñāna-bhāsvarah
gulma-kheta-puram kāya-sthity-artham samupeyivän
Having become equanimous by his holiness and provided with the luminousness of the fourth knowledge!45 he understood that the notion of a firm body is (in fact) that of a receptacle of gobbets of phlegm (i.e. something worthless).146
143 It is curious to call "deliverance" a female because women cannot be delivered according to the Digambaras, but just these regularly envisage deliverance in female terms as in Subhacandra's Jñānārnava (vs 42 et passim; p.c. from Paul Dundas); cf. Mukti, the wife of the deity Satya (MW) and daughter of Siddhasena in Nāgadeva's Madanaparājaya (Balbir-Osier 2004: 77 et passim (p.c. Mette), cf. Siddhi (happiness') there (p. 168) as a superhuman beauty). Thus the woman who cannot be liberated as such returns by a loophole. Maybe it is simply because mukti is feminine.
144 For the Švelâmbaras Pasa and his followers (e.g., Kesi in Utt and Rāy) kept their hair and thus Hemac., Trio, does not mention Pāsa's removing it (see Johnson's note 343 in vol. V, p. 393 and Mette 1991: 134). Bhd (13th century), however, makes Päsa pluck out his hair himself (Bloomfield 1919: 115 with note). Monks with long hair are mentioned in Āyära 2,13,17; in Viy 3. 2 sutra 145 Mahavira tells Goyama that Sakra had hurled his vajra at the Asura-King Camara who had sought refuge with Mahāvīra. In order to prevent the vajra from hitting the Tirthankara, Sakra ran after it and pounced upon it with such force that Mahavira's hair blew in the wind caused by his fist (mutthi-võenam kes'-agge viitthā; p.c. Paul Dundas); and Hemac., Trio X 3.58. lets Mahāvīra's he twisted like a tree (Johnson): jatävän iva pădarah. On matted hair see Hiltebeitel and Miller 1998: 23.
145 The fourth knowledge is the awareness of the thought-forms of others" (manah-paryaya: Umāsvāti 19; Jaini 1979: 122: Varni 1944: III 272ff.), i.c. mind-reading, which seems curious here.
146 Cf. vs 151 and Hemac., Trio X 1,253. For a similar view of the Buddhists see Pali-English Dictionary, s.v. kava
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