Agam 35 Chhed 02 Bruhatkalpa Sutra

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

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Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira Formerly, this progeny in the womb used to move, but now it does not." So saying, and thinking that all my heart's desire has fallen astray', she was plunged into a deep sea of sorrow and misery; and reposing her head on her hand, overcome by painful reflections, and casting her eyes on the ground, she was immersed in anxious thoughts. And in the palace of king Siddhartha too, the concert of drums and instruments, the clapping of hands, dramatical performances, and merry-making by the people,-all came to a stop, and they felt dejected, deprived and restless. 92
तए ण समणे भगवं महावीरे माउए एयमेयारूवं अज्झथ्थियं पथ्थियं मणोगयं संकप्पं समुप्पण्णं विजाणित्ता एग-देसेणं एयइ। तए णं सा तिसला खत्तियाणी तं गब्भं एयमाणं वेवमाणं चलमाणं फंदमाणं जाणित्ता हट्ट-तुटु जाव: हियया एवं वयासीः णो खलु मे गब्भे हडे जावणो गलिए एस मे गब्भे पुव्वि णो एयइ एयाणि एयइ त्ति कट्ट. हट्ट-तुट्ठ जाव... हियया एवं वा विहरइ । तए णं समणे भगवं महावीरे गब्भमथ्थे इमेयारूवं अभिग्गहं अभिगिण्हइ । णो खलु मे कप्पइ अम्मा-पिईहिं जीवंतेहिं मुंडे भवित्ता अगार-वासाप्रो अणोगारियं पव्वइत्तए ।
Then Šramaņa Bhagavān Mahavīra, having known about the anxious reflections in the mind of the mother, moved a little on the side.
93 Feeling her child in the womb quivering, trembling, moving and stirring, kșatriyāņi Trišalā became happy, pleased, and joyful, highly delighted in her mind, her heart was throbbing with glee. Quoth she: “Nay, forsooth, my progeny-in-womb is not stolen, my progeny is not dead, my progeny is not fallen, nor is he lost. Formerly it moved not, but now it moves." । So saying, she became pleased, happy and joyful, highly delighted in her mind, her heart throbbing with glee, and in this state she passed her days. Then Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira, lodged in the womb, made the following resolve: “It will not be worthwhile on my part to court the life of a homeless monk by giving up the life of a householder, and by undergoing a tonsure, so long as my parents are alive." 94
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