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In Search of the Ultimate
Life Sketch of Lord Mahavir from Kalpa Sutra
In that age, in that period, there lived Shraman Bhagvan Mahavir. When the moon was passing through a group of stars called uttaraphalguni, five auspicious events took place, they were:
In uttaraphalguni he descended and then he entered in to his mother's womb In uttaraphalguni he was moved from one womb to another In uttaraphalguni he was born. In uttaraphalguni he pulled and up-rooted his hair, left his home and accepted monk-hood. In uttaraphalguni he obtained ultimate, infinite, unobscured, complete and perfect knowledge and vision called Keval-Gyan-Darshan.
And He achieved emancipation when the moon was passing through a group of stars called Svati.
(This is the first passage of the Kalpa-Sutra. The life of Lord Mahavir is described now from the selected lines of the Kalpa-Sutra. What follows now is not the exact translation, but it gives a good idea of the original text).
At a time when the moon was passing through the group of stars called uttaraphalguni, Mahavir entered in to the womb of a woman called Devananda in the city of Kundagram.
In that age, in that period, the king of Gods called Sakra, who was the master of the southern half of the world and owner of 3.2 million planes; rider of the divine elephant, the chief of the suras, wearing precious clothes and garments, with golden, dangling ear-rings, most fortunate,
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