Agam 35 Chhed 02 Bruhatkalpa Sutra

Author(s): K C Lalwani
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira
cycle, 9 all the years of the bracing part, all the years of the bracing-unbracing part, and many years of the unbracingbracing part, (on the expiry of crores of sāgaropamas, less 42,000 years), when there still remained 75 years 87 months of this part; after the liberation of 21 tirthańkaras who were born in the race of Ikşvāku in the line of Kāśyapa, and of two others born in the race of Hari in the line of Gautama, 23 tīrthankaras (in all), and after the exhaustion of his title to the intake, life-span and physical frame (in the aforesaid vimāna), at a time when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Uttara-phålgunī, at the confluence of the two halves of the night, as directed by the preceding tirthařkaras, Šramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra entered as an embryo in the womb of the brahmin-lady Devānandā of the line of Jalandhara, the consort of a brahmin named Rşabhadatta of the line of Kodāla. in the brahminical city of Kundagrāma.
[तिग्णाणोवगए] समणे भगवं महावीरे तिण्णाणोवगए प्रावि होथ्था। चइस्सामि त्ति जाणइ । चयमाणे ण जाणइ। चुएमि त्ति जाणइ । जं रयणि च णं समणे भगवं महावीरे देवाणंदाए माहणिए जालंधरसगोत्ताए कुच्छिंसि गब्भत्ताए वक्कंते तं रयणि च णं सा देवाणंदा माहणी सयणिज्जसि सुत्तजागरा . प्रोहीरमाणी अोहीरमाणी इमे एयारूवे उराले कल्लाणे सिवे धण्णे मंगल्ले सस्सिरीए चोद्द महासुमिणे पासित्ता णं पडिबुद्धा ॥
[master of three types of knowledge] Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira was the master of three types of knowledge. Knew he-'I shall descend'. Knew he not-'I am descending'. Knew he--I have descended'. The night during which śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra entered as an embryo in the womb of the brahmin-lady Devānandă of the line of Jalandhara, during that night, the brahmin-lady Devānandā lying on her couch, half asleep and half awake, dreamt these noble, beautiful, blissful, blessed, auspicious and fortunate 14 great dreams and woke up.