Indian Antiquary Vol 02

SR No.: 032494
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 428
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
into moksha or beatitude, took place 900 krôrs of sagaras later than the seventh Tirthankara.
9. PUSHPADANTA, also named Suvida, was the son of Supriya" by Râmâ: he was born at Kakendrapuri, of the same race and complexion with the last; his mark is a makara or crocodile, and his Devi is Sutâ raka. His stature was 100 poles, and his life lasted 200,000 years. He was deified on Samet Sikhar ninety krors of sagaras after Chandraprabhâ.
10. SITALA, the son of Dridharatha by Nandâ, was born at Bhadalpur; of the same race, and with a golden complexion: his sign is the mark called Srivatsa, and his Śâsanadevi-A é o kâ. His stature was ninety poles, and his life 100,000 great years; his deification on Samet Sikhar dates nine krors of sugaras later than the preceding.
11. SEEYANSA, or ŚRI ANSANATHA, was the son of Vishnu by Vishnâ; of the same race and complexion, born in Sindh, with a rhinoceros (khadge) for his cognizance. His devi was Mânavi. He was eighty poles in stature, and lived 8,400,000 common years, dying at Samet Sikhar more than a hundred sagaras of years before the end of the fourth age.
12. VASUPUJYA or VASUPADYA, or VASUPUJYA SVAMI was son of Vasupujya by Jayâ; born at Champapuri, of the same race, with a red complexion, having a buffalo (mahisha) for his mark, and Chandâ for his devi. He was seventy poles high, lived 7,200,000 years, and attained nirvana at Champapuri fifty-four ságaras after the eleventh Jina.
[MAY, 1873.
after the preceding. The following translation from the Chamunda Raya Purana respecting him may be given as a specimen of the legendary lives of these hierarchs :
"Padmaratha the Arusu of Arishtapura, of Airavata Kshetra, in the Mu. dana Mandira (or Eastern Meru) in the Dhata Kishanda Dvipa, receiving religious instructions from Sva y amprabha Jina, he became disgusted with the world, and transferring the kingdom to his son Ghanaratha, he adopted a penitential life, read through the eleven Angas, and contemplated the sixteen Bhdvanas or meditations, he acquired the quality fitting him for becoming a Tirthankar: pursuing his religious penance, he quitted his body, and was born in the Achyuta Kalpa in the Pushpottara Vimana as Achyutendra, with a life of twenty-two sagaras, of the stature of thirty cubits, of subdued appetites, perfectly contented with his fate, with a knowledge penetrating as far as to the seventh lower world, he was enjoying the happiness of that world.
Afterwards Jay asy&ma Devi, the consort of Simhasena Maharaja, of the Kayapa Gotra, of the lineage of Ikshv&ku, the ruler of Ayodhyapura, in the Bharat Kshetra of Jambudvipa, on the 1st day of the month Kartika, under the star Revati, about break of day, saw the sixteen dreams, and also that of the elephant, entering in at her mouth, which she mentioned to her consort, who was in Avadijnyâni, and getting the interpretations of them from him, she was happy, and Saudhermendra performing the happy ceremony of descending from heaven on earth, Achyutendra became impregnated in the womb of the Queen. At that time on the last palla of ten ságaras of the term of Vimala Kirttakar, when virtue had faded one-third, he was born on the 12th of the dark half of the month Jyeshta, under the star Revati, in the Pushpa Yuga, and saw Dhermendra performing the happy worship of being born in the world, and as the new-born infant was born with Ananta Dnyana, or illimitable wisdom, he called him Ananta Tirthankar, and returned to his residence: his life was to continue for three millions of years, his stature 100 cubits, and his colour golden: his childhood comprised a period of seven hundred and fifty thousand years: his reign continued for fifteen hundred thousand, after which on a certain day seeing a meteor fall, and considering that this life would be dissolved in the same manner, he be
14. ANANTA, or ANANTAJITA, was son of Sinha sena by Suyasâ or Jayasyâmâ, and born at Ayodhya. His sign is a falcon (syena); his Sasana Devi was Aǹ kus â ; his height was fifty poles, the length of his life 3,000,000 years, and his death nine sagaras
So Colebrooke,-Hemachandra has Sugriva,-Abhidhana Chintamani, 37 (ed. Boehtlingk and Rieu), p. 7.
13. VIMALA was son of Kritavarman by Śy âm â, was born at Kumpalapuri; of the same race and of yellow complexion. He has a boar (sákara) for his characteristic, and Viditâ was his devi; he was sixty poles high, lived 6,000,000 years, and was deified on Samet Sikhar thirty sdgaras later than the twelfth Jina.
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