Agam 21 Upang 10 Pushpika Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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Pushpika -Upana-10- Chapter-4 my freedom. Since I got my head tonsured and initiated I have lost my freedom. Earlier these Aryikas used to respect me but not now. So it would be good for me to leave this group, led by Aryaa Suvrata, tomorrow itself and live independently in another upashraya (place of stay for ascetics)." She resolved to do accordingly and the first thing she did in the morning was to abandon Suvrata Aryaa and shift to another suitable upashraya to live alone.
Thus not heeding to censure by other aryikas Subhadra Aryaa became unrestrained, willful, and footloose in her fondness for and excessive indulgence in massaging the children of householders and other such sinful activities. She moved about satiating her desire for sons and grandsons.
As time passed, distancing herself from ascetic virtues (pasattha) that Subhadra Aryaa became lax in her ascetic conduct (pasatth-vihari); breaking her vows she became vow-breaker; indulging in base activities (avsanna) she became disgraceful (avasannavihari); keeping contact with householders (samsakt) she became gregarious (samsaktavihari); and acting willfully she became footloose. This way she lived long as an ascetic. In the end she observed the ultimate vow of fifteen days duration to cleanse her soul of the dirt of karmas and abandoning thirty meals died without reviewing and atoning for her sinful misconduct. She reincarnated as Bahuputrika Devi, with a minimum occupied space of uncountable fraction of an Angul (and a maximum of seven cubits), on the divine bed covered with divine cloth in the Upapat-hall of Bahuputrika vimaan (celestial vehicle) in the Saudharm Kalp (divine dimension).
Then Bahuputrika Devi instantaneously attained the state of full development (paryapti) through five kinds of full development (paryapti)... and so on up to... bhasha-man (speech and mind) paryapti and lived as a goddess.
"Thus, Gautam ! that Bahuputrika Devi acquired that divine opulence and power.
On listening to the description of her earlier birth Gautam Swami asked further"Bhante ! Why is that Bahuputrika Devi called Bahuputrika (having many offsprings)?
Bhagavan replied- "Gautam ! Every time that Bahuputrika Devi goes to Shakra, king of gods, she creates many children and infants. After doing this she approaches Shakra, king of gods, seated on his throne and displays her divine power, opulence and influence. For this reason, Gautam ! that BahuputrikaDevi called Bahuputrika (having many offsprings).
Gautam Swami--"Bhante 1 What is the life-span of Bahuputrika Devi in that divine realm ?
Bhagavan—"Gautam ! Her life-span there is four Palyopam."
Gautam Swami again asked, "Bhante ! Completing the age, state, and life of the dimension of gods and descending from that abode of gods, where will Bahuputrika Devi go? Where will she be born?"
Bhagavan said, "Gautam ! Completing the age, state, and life of the dimension of gods that Bahuputrika Devi will be born as a daughter in a Brahmin family residing in Vibhel village located at the foothills of Vindhyachal mountain in Bharatvarsh in the Jambudveep continent."
After eleven days of her birth, on the twelfth day, her parents will name her thus—"Our daughter should be called Soma."
Aagam -21 - Pushpika
Compiled by - Deepratnasagar
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