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II 3PAH: 14.77: 11
नो रोगाः नैव शोकाः नकलहलनाः नारिमारि प्रकाशः, नै वाधिर्ना समाधिन च दुरदुरिते दुष्टदारिद्रतानो, नो शाकिन्यो ग्रहानो न हरि करि गणव्या लवेतालजालाः,
जायन्ते पार्श्वचिन्तामणि नति वसतां प्राणिनां भक्ति भानाम् ॥ The Jain Swetamber Gonfrrence Herald.
Vol. I
April, 1905.
No. IV.
A plea for the Alliance for the Swetamber and
Digamber Jains.
The cart of Phæbus has gone round Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground” full two hundred and two dozen and seven times since our last revered Incarnation Shri Mahavir attained Nirvan. We have therefore a vast field lying before us to scan. Mahavir took Avatar 250 years after our renowned Parasnath. His was a model life well worth of imitation by dutiful and obedient sons, affectionate brothers, and submissive desciples. While yet in the embryo, he resolved, on account of the doting affection of his mother, not to enter into the holy order so long as his parents lived, and so he remained with them-Raja Siddharath and Rani Trisla, and after them with his brother--for thirty years. Then leaving all wordly connections he entered into the holy order of ascetics and practised self-mortification for twelve years. Having extirpated all the good and evil Karmas he obtained that mos tcraved for Kevalgyan, the all seeing and knowing faculty, and during his remaining thirty years of this holy life, he preached to the world at large the true doctrines of religion which, when practised in right earnest, pave the path to Heaven. His right teaching was not an outcome of selfish, worldly or licentious. motives. His was an exemplary life of self-denial. His object was to be freed from Karma, and leaving aside the cycle of worldly existence, to find eternal rest in Heaven. He was free from self-interest devoting himself to the purification of his soul as well as the souls of those who were
