Jain Journal 1974 07

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

Page 28

JULY, 1974
alone in terrific rage, he moved out through the heart of metropolis Camaracanca. Then he came to the utpāta mountain named Tigicchakuta. Having arrived there,...till he transformed his body with the help of vaikriya-samudghāta,...till assumed an uttara-vaikriya form stretching upto a limited number of yojanas, and then with an excellent divine speed, ...till approached my slab of stone, moved round me thrice,...till having paid obeisance, said:
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Bhante! With thy support, by myself, I desire to dislodge Sakra, the Indra of the gods, their king, from his grandeur.
Then he moved to the north-east, and applied again the vaikriyasamudghata, ... till transformed his body for the second time by vaikriyasamudghata. He turned himself into a terrific form, with a terrific shape, fear-generating, with a dreary shape, dazzling, tremendous gloomy, fierce, like a midnight of the dark fortnight, like a pile of black pulses (mās-kalai), with his body attaining a height of one lakh yojanas. Having done so, he started hurling his hands; and having done so, he gave severe jerks to his body; and having given severe jerks to his body, he thundered; and having thundered, he gave out a horse's neigh, trumpeted like an elephant and rattled like a chariot; he struck the ground with his legs; he gave slaps on the ground; he roared; he jumped ; he hurled; he frowned; he raised up his left arm; he disfigured his mouth with his thumb and fore-finger; and having disfigured his mouth, he made a terrific sound like rushing water. Thus having caused an upheaval in the lower sphere, shaking the earth, giving a severe pull to the sub-human world, and piercing the sky, sometimes he thundered, sometimes he flashed, sometimes he showered water, sometimes he showered sand, and sometimes he created drakness, causing terror to the Banavyantaras, splitting the Jyotiskas into two, routing the body-guard gods, brandishing incessantly his Parigha-ratna under the sky, and all the time displaying its tremendous power. With his excellent speed, (he moved), ...till through the centre of an innumerable number of islands and seas in the sub-human world; and having thus moved out, he arrived at Saudharma-kalpa, rushed to the vimana named Saudharmavatamsaka, and was at the assembly hall named Sudharma. He placed one step on the padmavara-vedikā and the other step in the Sudharma Hall, and then with a terrific roar, he struck thrice with his Parigha-ratna on the thunder-bolt of Sakra shouting :
Where's that Sakra, the Indra of the gods, their king? Where are his 84,000 Samanika gods? Where are his 3,36,000 body-guards ? And where are those myriads of nymphs ? To-day, I steal them.