________________ 12 Introduotion will at once be destroyed. Moreover, by worshipping the Siddhachakra he will suffer no misfortune such as slavery, servitude, 'having no art, having impaired or defective organs of sense, blindness, a degraded body, & degraded family etc. In the case of a woman the misfortune of being not iked by her husband, being a poison maid, a whore, a widow, a barren woman, a woman bearing a dead child etc. will never come to her. In short such is the greatness of the Navapada or the Siddhachakra that by worshipping it the 'jivas' are always able to fulfil the desired objects of their minds, and there is no doubt about that. Again such is the greatness of the Navapada, says the poet further, that by its propitiation all the evils such as wicked planets, demons, ghosts and witches etc. of those high souls who are possessed of a pure mental condition, disappear at once. Moreover, by the propitiation of the Navapada all the dangers from water, fire, serpents, and beasts of prey; the pains from poison and calamities such as excessive rain, drought etc. and diseases such as plague etc. which bring death to the bipeds and quadrupeds all these do not remain in the world. Moreover, even barren women get
