Agam 08 Ang 08 Antkruddasha Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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Antakrud-Dasha- Ang-08 - varga-1, Chapter- 1 to 10
►Thinking like Skandhaka:
Skandhaka was a great sage in Jain Sutras. His thinking was very deep and famous. So the simile of Gautama mendicant is given to Skandhaka sage.
Once, on a night during religious awakening monk Gautama began to think like this-Due to different types of severe penances my body has become lean and withered and strength of body hase also diminished. Only by self-strength I stand and move. While I stand or move my bones crackle and make sound. Until I have strength, valour, etc., it would be better for me that I should propitiate the religious rites which are practised at the end of life. So in the morning I will go to Bhagavana and by bowing down worship him, myself propitiating five great vows, begging pardon of all saints and nuns, climbing on the mount Shatrunjaya with elder sages, watch a rock, taking bed of grass, making my own soul faultless by samlekhana, and renouncing food and water, lying like a broken branch of a tree (Padapopa-gamana santhara) and should remain steadfast in it. This is thebest for me.
Meaning with Commentary of Varg [Part] - 1 [Adhyayanani- 1 to 10] Compiled by Muni DeepratnaSagar is Finished
Varga [part]- 2
Chapters- (Adhyayanani) 1 to 8
[7] Meaning
Jambu Swami- Reverend Sir! Shraman Bhagavvana Mahavira described as the first section, so i heardattentively. Now please tell me how many chapters have been described by Shramana Bhagavana Mahavira in the second section of Antakrud-dasha Sutra.
Arya Sudharma- Jambu! (Until salvated) Bhagavana Mahavira has described eight chapters of second section. As---
[8] Meaning
(1) Akshobha (2) Sagara (3) Samudra (4) Himavaana (5) Acala (6) Dharana, (7) Purana and (8) Abhichandra.
[9] Meaning
(At that time and at that period) Father was Vrushni and mother was Dharini of all these eight princes. As in thefirst section is about Gautamakumar, in the same way all these eight chapters should he known. All the practisers observed Gunaratna samvatsara penance and practised consecration period of 16 years. These practised pure conduct and with Samlekhana of one month, all these attained liberation from mountain Shatrunjaya. Thus 0 Jambu Shramana Bhagavana Mahavira has told the subject matter of the second section of Eighth Antakrud-dasha
Meaning of Varg [Part] -2- [Adhyayanani- 1 to 8] Compiled by Muni DeepratnaSagar is Finished
Aagam - 08 - Antakrud-dasha
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Compiled by - Deepratnasagar