Agam 35 Chhed 02 Bruhatkalpa Sutra

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

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Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira
Ever since śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra was brought into the family of the Jñātrs, many devas of the animal world, and the jrmbhaka* world the order-bearers of Vaiśravana (Kuvera, the god of wealth), at the command of Sakra, brought to the
e of ksatriya Siddhartha, great treasures of diverse kind, ancient and old, such as, treasures that had no owner, no user, no family protector, or treasures whose owners, users and family protectors had been dead, or treasures which had been stored or hidden in the villages, cluster of villages, towns, towns surrounded with mud low walls, bad (isolated) towns, towns surrounded within a mile and a half by villages, towns accessible by land and/or water, natural strongholds, granaries, halting places for caravans, inns, triangular places, quadrangular places, courtyards, squares, highways, ruins of an extinct village, ruins of an extinct town, village water outlets, town water outlets, (occasional) markets, temples, assembly halls, water-falls, parks, gardens, woods, groves, cremation grounds, vacant houses, mountain crevices, caves, waiting rooms, secret rooms, houses on an elevation, halls of audience or palaces.
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जं रयणि च णं समणे भगवं महावीरे णाय-कुलंसि साहरिए तं रणिं च णं णायकुलं हिरणेणं वढिथ्था सुवण्णणं वढिथ्था धणेणं धण्णेणं रज्जेणं रट्टेणं वढिथ्था बलेणं वाहणेणं कोसेणं कोट्ठागारेणं पुरेणं अंतेउरेणं जण• वएणं जस-वएणं वढिथ्था विपुल-धण-कणग-रयण-मणि-मोत्तिय-संखसिल
प्पवाल-रत्त-रयणमाइएणं संत-सार-सावइज्जेणं अईव पीइ-सक्कार-समुदयेणं • अभिवड्ढिथ्था । तए णं समणस्स अम्मा-पिऊणं अयमेयारूवे अज्झथ्थिए
चितिए पथ्थिए मणोगए संकप्पे समुप्पज्जिथ्था ।
During the night, in which śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira entered into the family of the Jñātrs, during that night, in the house of the Jñātrs, increased silver and gold, increased wealth and grains, kingdom and territory, transport, treasures and storehouses, palaces and seraglios, subjects and fame; also increased their vast treasure in gold, gems, jewels, pearls, conches, stones, corals, rubies and many others, all genuine, real, valuable, the cream of treasures.
A species of Vyantaras of subhuman (animal) species.