Jain Journal 1971 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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APRIL, 1971
the next year, owing to the changes produced by the tide of the sea, that very pillar, that was lost in the mud, became visible. When it was being transported to the temple by order of the minister, a man bearing disagreeable tidings came to inform the minister that the temple had split in two. Thereupon the minister gave him a golden tongue. When clever people asked, "What is the meaning of this?" he replied, "Henceforth men will manage somehow or other to get religious edifices built so strongly, that they will not come to an end even at the termination of a great age of the world. For this reason I gave him this complimentary present. This temple built up again from the foundation for the third time is sure to be greatly prosperous." Moreover, he caused to be built a large pausadha-house in Palitanaka. Now when the minister arrived with the worshipful congregation at the sacred Ujjayanta, he saw at the foot of the mountain the new embankment that had been caused to be made in Jalapura, and in the middle of it the temple of Asaraja, and also the matchless tank of Kumaradevi. The servants asked him to enter the palace, but the minister inquired whether there was a fitting pausadha-house for the reverend religious teacher, or not, and hearing that it was in course of erection, he was afraid of transgressing the bounds of discipline, and remained with the religious teacher in a camp which he had pitched outside. Next morning he ascended Ujjayanta and worshipped the twin lotuses of the feet of Neminatha, and made a great proclamation of the faith in the holy bathing place of Satrunjayavatara, which he himself had cused to be made, and he did his duty to the excellent caityas of the three auspicious occasions by adoration and other ceremonies, and on the third day he descended, and found that in those two days the pauṣadha-house had been completed, and the minister and religious teacher were conducted there and praised the edifice, and favoured those employed in building it with a complimentary present. In Pattana, in the field of Prabhasa, he prostrated himself before Candraprabha, because he was powerful there, and on his own Astapada temple he placed, after due worship, a golden finial, and gave gifts to the people there to whom gifts ought to be given. While thus engaged he heard from the mouth of a righteous attendant of the god, who was more than a hundred and fifteen years old, the worldrenowned story, how Acarya Hemacandra showed to king Kumarapala the god Somesvara visibly manifested. He was astonished in his mind at that man's experience. Now, on the way, as he was returning, he forbade the giving of food to those who lived by carrying lingas, on account of their improper conduct. Jinadatta of Vyayada heard of that insult, and supplied that charitable donation from the resources of his lay followers. Then the minister came to propitiate that religious body, and Jinadatta said to him:
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