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pleys. ] Nyāya-Kusumānjali
Oh wretch ! do you find fault with him who contemplates through the medium of an image the Jivanmukta, the great Lord of the three worlds, the embodiment of matchless lustre, the great source of supreme happiness, the leader among the five deified saints (Pancha Parameshthi ) and the possessor of a body having hands, feet, the head and the mouth like ours-that God, the extraordinary sun who having abandoned the great kingdom like a straw attained to Yoga, who having practised very severe austerities in dreadful forests consumed the fuel in the form of Karmans and hence obtained the knowledge of discerning Loka and Aloka and who was worshipped by Yogindras ( masterly saints ), Indras and multitudes of Tiryachs assembled together in spite of their natural antipathy, rushing forward in emulation to bow to Him first and who, by the light in the form of a speech full of excessive juice of the nectar of peace and effective as to be followed by human beings, gods and Tiryachs, completely destroyed the line of darkness in the form of excessive infatuation of the universe, which existed from beginning-less time, which is the cause of mundane existence and which cannot be annihilated even by seven suns ? (37-39 )
Pancha Parameshthi,
Notes:-In Jainism Arhat, Siddha, Acharya, Upadhyaya and Sadhu are collectively spoken of as Pancha Parameskthi. Pancha means 'five' and Parameshthin, a superior Being, so Pancha Parameshthi
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