Parshvabhyuday

Author(s): Jinsenacharya, M G Kothari
Publisher: Gulabchand Hirachand Doshi

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Canto-II :-On taking rest just for a moment, He, possessing body having resplendent and darkish colour (complexion), looked at with respect by the crowds of citizens owing to His possessing the lustre like that of the neck of the lord of cobras, should roam about with a desire to enjoy the beauty of the city of Viśālā putting the city of Indra to shame by its glory. First of all, He, desirous of attaining religious merit, should visit the temple laughing as it were at the beauty of the Kailāsa mountain, touching the sky with its uppermost part, whitening a region of the sky, dedicated to lord Jina, the master of all the three worlds, the conqueror of passions (or the lord of sages practising austere penance ), bringing sexual passion into subjection, and destroying infatuation which is one of the enemies in the form of eightfold Karmans. He, moving round in a manner causing the garden to shake, scattering showers of water like those of flowers, turning the thundering sound rumbling like that of a kettledrum into a hymn of praise, should worship lord Jina with the waters of the Gandhavati, fragrant on account of the polleps: of blue-lotuses, possessing lofty waves moving very violently
es moving very violently on account of their being disturbed by the wind. He, when He would have drunk very sweet and pure water in other lakes etc. possessing fragrant, cool and pure water, would not be gratified by those waters of the Gandhavati pungent ( or fragrant } owing to the unguents, perfumed powders etc. of the young. ladies engaged in water-sports. śambara told him that had Hebeen desirous of seeing the very wonderful conference of the dead, He, on approaching the Mabākāla forest at any time: except night, should wait there for a while for the meetings of the dead are always convened even in day-time, resembling a night owing to the darkness caused by the flights of vultures: soaring in the sky and that He should, until the sunset, make a, halt in the immediate proximity, abounding in noises terrorising the owls having their hootings impeded inside the interior parts