Kalpasutra

Author(s): J Stevenson
Publisher: Oriental Translation Fund London

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KALPA SÚTRA.
priority, chieftainship, presidency, and absolute command of all this vast army, directing and protecting all; while then he was enjoying vocal music, the dance and the song, the sound of the pipe, the violin, the cymbal, the timbrel, the tambourine, and the loud-sounding dram, partaking of divine delight, he with a knowledge next to infinite* cast his eyes with an all-embracing view down on the continent of Jambudvípa, permitting them to roam all abroad till they lighted on the place where the adorable ascetic Mahávíra had just become incarnate, in the continent of Jambudvípa, in the region of Bharata Varsha, that part of Bhárata which lies to the south (of Meru), in the city of Kundagráma, the Brahmanical division, in the womb of the Brahmani Devanandi, of the tribe of Jalandhara, the wife of the Brahman Rishabha Datta, of the tribe of Kodala. On beholding this, glad and delighted, and with a heart full of joy, elated and filled with pleasure, in a state of the most enchanting ecstacy, and with his whole soul absorbed in a transport of delight, and like the sweet-smelling kadamba blossoms after a shower of rain, having all the hairs of his body erect, like so many flowery filaments, blossoming in their pores, and with face and eyes resembling a full-blown lotus, the beautiful bracelets and carved armlets, which he wore shak
It is only Tirthankars who
* In the original, like infinite. have infinite knowledge.