Jaina Gazette 1928

Author(s): Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office

Page 32

VARDHAMANA PURANA
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Svayamprabha for whom you slew Asvagriva, you died with your last thoughts of hatred of Asvagriva.
“Now we have just returned from the samavasarana of Sri Vimalanatha Tirthamkara, when the Ganadhara, on being questioned as to the present state of Marichi the future Tirthamkara, said that he is now a lion in this mountain."
The charana Arinjaya went on describing the horrors of the seven narakas, and advised the lion, that had by now recollected his previous births, to cease grieving over the past but to contemplate on Dharma that would promote happiness. The lion regretted very much his present inability to praise, worship and do all acts of devotion proper to the charana. The sage by his insight saw at a glance all the former births of the soul before him and che future births also beginning from Pururava the hunter and ending with the last Tirthamkara. He laid special emphasis on Samyaktva which brings peace and happiness, whereas its opposite brings misery. He then explained briefly yet clearly Samyaktva, the Vratas, Apta, Agama, and Rules of conduct for the Sagara and the Anagara, and blessed that the lion may never again lose the Samyaktva which he had then attained. Seeing that the lion was deeply sorry for the parting, the charana foretold that they would meet again in a month, when as a deva the lion would go to worship Jina Chaityalaya.
The lion from that moment took to a course of austere discipline and tapas, and dying passed on to the Simha-vimana in the Soudharma Kalpa.
On the expiry of his term in the first Kalpa the Simha-chara came down to Kanakapura in East Videha, South of the Sita River in Dhevaki-Shanda, and was born as Kanakadhvaja, son of the Khechara King Kanakaprabha and his Queen Kanakamale. Kanakadhvaja married Kanak aprabhe, and to them was born Kanakaratha. Kanakaprabha crowned his son Kanakadhvaja as king and took the diksha under the sage Sumati. Kanakadhvaja in his turn made over the kingdom to his son Kanakaratha became a disciple of Sumatiswami, and after due penance passed
on to Kapitha Kalpa. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat