Jain Journal 1974 07

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

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JAIN JOURNAL
Today, I carry them control.
away. From this day, they are under my
In this manner, he uttered many harmful, unpleasant, unpalatable, inauspicious, indecent, ignoble and unworthy words.
Sakra, the Indra of the gods, their king, heard these harmful, ...till ignoble words, never heard before, realised their implication), and having done so, became angry, ...till rattled his teeth with rage, and then with three lines prominent on his forehead and with a frown, he said :
Ye Camara, the Indra of the Asuras, their king! Harken ye, the covetous of the most undesirable ...till ye born on an incomplete fourteenth day ! From this day, ye will no longer be there, nor have ye happiness any more.
So saying, seated on the excellent throne, Sakra raised his thunderbolt, which was burning, glittering, roaring, throwing out thousands of meteors, showering thousands of hot blasts, spraying flames, emitting sparks disastrous to vision, with a much greater glow than that of fire, very swift-moving, red like Kimsuka flower, extremely dreary and dreadful, and he hurled it to inflict ruin on Camara, the Indra of the Asuras, their king. Now, the Indra of the Asuras, their king, saw that burning, ...till dreadful thunder-bolt moving at a tremendous speed towards him. On seeing it, he thought, what it could be ; and having thought like that, he desired again and again, if he had such a weapon in his possession. And thereafter, with the crest of his crown smashed, with the pendants of his bracelets broken, with legs up and head down, with the arm-pits oozing immense sweat, he fell at a great speed, ... till after moving through the centre of innumerable isles and seas in the subhuman world, (he reached) Jambu-dvipa, ...till where stood the excellent Asoka tree, in my proximity, and then terrified, with a voice stricken with terror, he uttered, 'Lord, my refuge', and dropped dashing between my legs.
At that time, it occured to Sakra, the Indra of the gods, their king as follows :
Camara, the Indra of the Asuras, their king, does not have the strength, capacity and ability to come up, on his own initiative, as high up as the Saudharma-kalpa, without the support of some Jina, or of some caitya dedicated to a Jina, or of some monk or some advanced soul. And if it be so that Camara, the Indra of the Asuras, their king, could not have come up, ...till Saudharma-kalpa, on his own initiative, without the support of some Jina, or of some caitya dedicated to a Jina, or of