Book Title: Ancient Jaina Hymns
Author(s): Charlotte Krause
Publisher: SCIndia Oriental Institute Ujain

Previous | Next

Page 32
________________ ANCIENT JAINA HYMNS practises severe penance, and patiently suffers hardships and persecutions, till he obtains omniscience. Only then, his activity as a Tīrthankara begins, in which he perseveres till his karman is consumed. Wherever he goes, gods and genii produce miraculous phenomena to his glorification. Generally, 34 miraculous phenomena' of this kind are described in Jaina texts under the name of "the 34 atiśayas", which are also referred to in some of our hymns. They are as follows: (a) 4 innate atisayas : (1) His body is of exquisite beauty, always clean, fragrant, and free from perspira tion. (2) His breath has the fragrance of lotuses. (3) His flesh and blood are the colour of milk and free from odour. (4) The actions of eating and of evacuating are imperceptible to the human eye (or : do not take place according to Digam · bara doctrine). (6) 11 atisayas produced by exhaustion of "ghāti. karman" : (1) One kotākoți of gods, men and animals find place within the space of one mile around him, to listen to his words. (2) Every living being listening to him, can un derstand his teachings in his or her own language within that space. (3) A su-like halo surrounds his head (1) Abhidh. I, st 57-64; Saptat., Sthāna 97. 20

Loading...

Page Navigation
1 ... 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185