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vehicle, who held an ichneumon and a serpent in his left two forearms, a citron and a serpent in his right two forearms, became a devotee at the side of the Lord.47 Then a four-handed goddess, Padmāvati by name, arose at that tirtha, golden of complexion, of distinguished might, having a kurkuța-serpent as chariot, holding in her right two hands a lotus and a noose, in her left two hands a fruit and a hook. She also stood, as orderly of the Arhat (çāsanadevatā 48), at the side of the Lord.49 Then the Lord, followed by the assembly (samghā), went elsewhere, the wheel of the law upon a throne going in front, a drum sounding in the air. He was served by an umbrella and by chowries. He went on his journey upon golden lotuses, and, as he went, trees bent, thorns turned down; the seasons, the sense-objects (sound, smells, etc.), the winds, and the birds were propitious. By the might of his lordship diseases fled to a distance of 100 yojanas; and where he dwelt, from there vanished hostility and other afflictions. Superior to every one, the lotus of his feet ever attended by scores of gods, the Lord traversed the earth (826-836).
* The text has here, bhaktah părçvo' bhavad vibhoh, where pårçvo must be changed to pārçve; compare stanza 830.
* So here; elsewhere căganadevi or căganasundari. Hemacandra, Abhidhånacintāmaņi 44-46 has a list of these female orderlies which serve each Jina. They are pictured in full panoply in the iconografy of the Jinas; see p. 19. Padmavati, as conceived by the Digambaras, is reproduced on a plate in connection with Burgess' article, Indian Antiquary xxxii, pp. 459 ff., which is copied by Guerinot, Essai de Bibliographie Jaina, opposito to p. 281. See Pariçista parvan 9. 93; 12. 214; Çatrumjaya Mahātmyam sarga 2 (Burgess, Indian Antiquary, xxx. 246); Pascadandachattraprabandha, p. 8; Kathakoça, p. 27.
- Pārcvayakşa, or Dharanendra (see, p. 19) and Padmavati are the traditional attendant male and female spirits of the 23d Tirthamkara; see Burgess, Appendix to Bühler, Indian Sect of the Jainas; Stevenson, The Heart of Jainism, p. 313.
