Agam 35 Chhed 02 Bruhatkalpa Sutra

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

Page 94

Kalpa Sūtra
तस्स णं भगवंतस्स. अणुत्तरेणं णाणेणं अणुत्तरेणं दंसणेणं अणुत्तरेणं चरित्तेणं अणुत्तरेणं आलएणं अणुत्तरेणं विहारेणं अणुत्तरेणं वीरियेणं अणुत्तरेणं अज्जवेणं अणुत्तरेणं मद्दवेणं अणुत्तरेणं लाघवेणं अणुत्तराए खंतीए अणुत्तराए मुत्तीए अणुत्तराए गुत्तीए अणुत्तराए तुट्ठीए अणुत्तराए बुद्धीए अणुत्तरेणं सच्च-संजम-तव-सुचरिय-सोवचिय-फलपरिणिव्वाण-मग्गेणं अप्पाणं भावेमाणस्स दुवालस संवच्छराई विइक्कंताई तेरसमस्स अंतरा वट्टमाणस्स जे से गिम्हाणं दोच्चे मासे चउथ्थे पक्खे वइसाइ-सुद्धे तस्स णं वइसाह-सुद्धस्स दसमी-पक्खेणं पाईणा-गामिणीए छायाए पोरिसीए अभिणिवट्टाए पमाणपत्ताए सुब्वएणं दिवसेणं विजएणं मुहुत्तेणं जंभिय-गामस्स णगरस्स वहिया उजुवालियाए णई-तीरे वियावत्तस्स चेइयस्स अदूर-सामंते सामागस्स गाहावइस्स कट्ठ-करणंसि साल-पायवस्स अहे गोदोहियाए उक्कुडुय-णिसिज्जाए पायावणाए आयावेमाणस्स २ छठेणं भत्तेणं प्रापाणएणं हथ्थुत्तराहिं णक्खत्तेणं जोगं उवागएणं झाणं-तरियाए वट्टमाणस्स अणंते अणुत्तरे णिव्वाघाए णिरावरणे कसिणे पडिपुण्णे केवल-वर-णाण-दसणे समुप्पण्णे । १२०
With supreme knowledge, supreme faith and supreme conduct, in stainless lodgings and blameless wanderings, with extreme valour, extreme uprightness, extreme mildness, extreme dexterity and extreme patience, with utmost caution and utmost satisfaction, with the highest intelligence and the highest truth, restraint and penance, śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra passed 12 years in meditation on self on the road to liberation, which was the duly earned outcome of a right conduct.
In the thirteenth year, in the second month of summer, in the fourth fortnight, on the tenth day of the bright half of Vaišākha, when the shadow had turned eastward, on the expiry of the first quarter, on the day called Subrata, at the hour called Vijaya, outside of the town called Gạmbhikā-grāma, on the bank of the river Rjupālika, not far from a discarded vaksaabode, on the farm of a householder named Syāmāka, beneath a sāl tree, when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Uttara-phālgunī, while, to expose himself to the full blast of the sun, seated was he in a milking posture, with his head erect - and at this time he practised the hard vow of taking meal, devoid of water, every third day (missing in all six meals)-still