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(7) 'mohādyari-kula' refers to the mohanīya and the other categories of karman, represented as the enemies of the soul ( vide above).
(8-14 ) vide general chapter.
( 11 ) 'tri-vapri' = the three-fold enclosure of the ‘Samavasaraña'.
(12) cāturūpyam' = the fourfold appearance of the Tīrtharikara, created by the gods in the 'Samavasarana' in such a way that he seems to face all the four directions simultaneously.
( 14 ) 'audāttya' = 'high tone', a quality attributed to the Tīrthankara's voice : cp. Hemacandra, Abhidh. I, 65 and Commentary.
(15) ‘sita' and 'asita' = ‘śukla' and 'krsna' with reference to the two halves of the month, the order of the two words being dictated here by Kaumudi Sūtra 904 (2/2/33 ). In fact, the 'dīksā' took place in the bright half, and the ‘kevala-jñāna-kalyāņaka' in the dark ( cp. Saptatiśata 59 and 87, Dharmaghoşa's Munisuvratastava, 1.1., and Trişast. IV, 7, st. 154 and 159 ).
'Siti' means 'dark' here, as both “janma' and 'moksa' took place in the dark halves of the respective months according to the available sources ( vide above).
( 20 ) 'Isaņā' = the 2nd Kalpa ( vide above ).
( 21 ) 'carama-jaladhi' refers to the Svayambhūramaņasamudra, re which vide general chapter. According to Jaina cosmology, aquatic animals are only found in the first two ring-oceans, counted from Jambū-dvipa, viz., Lavaņoda and Kāloda, and in the last ocean, the Svayambhūramana Sea. All the other countless ringoceans are void of life.
( 22 ) This stanza contains a reminiscence of the famous "Tortoise-parable', one of the 10 stereotype allegories used over and again to illustrate what a rare chance it means for a living being to be born as a man, and thus to have the chance of finding the path to mokşa by following the Jina's teachings. It is equal to the chance
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