Agam 08 Ang 08 Antkruddasha Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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Antakrud-Dasha-Ang-08 - varga-5, Chapters- 1 O beloved of gods! Having heard and listened to the sermon (religious discourse) of Arhat Arishthanemi my mind became disinclined from world and worldly pleasures. Hence, if you permit me, I intend to tonsure my head and accept consecration in presence of Arhat Arishthanemi.
Krushna said- Do, as you feel happy. Then Vasudeva Krushna called his chamberlains and ordered them
O beloved of gods! Quickly make the enormous preparations of consecration ceremony of queen Padmavati and report to me.
Chamberlains obeyed the order of Vasudeva, made preparations according to his wishes and reported him.
[...20] Meaning
Then Krushna VAsudeva got seated padmavati Devi on a special seat and she was bathed with water from one hundred eight pitchers of gold and conronated for consecration. Then, she was decorated with all kinds of ornaments, and was seated in the palanquin, which was carried by one thousand men, moving through the central part of Dwaraka city. They reached Sahasramaravana, which was situated on mount Raivataka. There Padmavati Devi got down from the palanquin.
Keeping queen Padmavati ahead of him, Shree Krushna came to Bhagavana Arishthanemi circumambulated him three times, bowed down and worshipped, then said thus
OBhagawan! This Padmavati Devi is my chief queen. She is pleasing, charming, beloved, beautiful and enchanting to me. She is dear to me like life force, and is pleasing to my heart. This excellent woman is like a flower of wild fig tree (gulara) which is such a rare object that it is very difficult to hear about, not to speak of seeing. O beloved of gods! offer unto you my such beloved wife, as a gift of woman disciple. Please, accept it.
Having heard the request of Krushna Vasudeva spoke thus Bhagavana Arishthanemi-O beloved of gods!Do, as you feel happy.
Then Padmavati Devi went to North-East direction, removed with her own hands her ornaments and also with her own hands tonsured her hairs in five attempts, then came to Bhagavana Arishthanemi, bowing down and worshipping him she spoke
O Bhagawan! This world is burning in the fire of birth, death, oldage etc. Hence for liberation from the fire of all these miseries and for saving my soul from burning world, I intend to accept consecration. Therefore kindly take me into monk order and teach me the rules of right conduct-sagehood.
[...20] Commentary: - Elucidation
Flower of wild fig tre-Really wild fig tree is a tree of banyan tree class. After many years, flowers blooms on it in any full moon night. So it is considered very difficult to see and obtain such flower.
[...20) Meaning
Considering such request of Padmavati Devi, Bhagavana Arishthanemi himself took her into sage order, made her a nun and gave her to chief nun (arya) Yaksini as a woman disciple.
Then Chief nun Yaksini herself took Padmavati Devi in nun-order, and taught her to practice restrain, consecrated her as a nun, inspire her to ever remain always Aagam - 08 - Antakrud-dasha
Compiled by - Deepratnasagar
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