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21915a: - end of the ban. ge: 47TF1A1 - desirous of speaking out loudly, 240 FIA: 3714814: JEIT: All - as if. Ta - the autumnal season. 3487 - sprang op, set in. On seeing the Sage harassed too much by Sambara by pouring heavy showers of rain, Dharana, .
god devoted to Pārsva, got himself changed into a serpent, twisted his changed body into a circular shape and raised the Sage and put Him on the seat-like circular shape of bis body. On account of this, the autumnal season mistook Pārsva, having complexion similar to that of Visnu, for Nārāyana seated on a seat prepared by Sesa by twisting his body into a circular shape. When pure and perfect knowledge got developed in the Sage from the pre-existing modification of his knowledge, the body of the Sage got raised from the seat prepared by Dharana. When the autumnal season, wbich is personified bere, saw this, she being deceived by this phenomenon, recalled to her memory the fact that whenover Visnu rises from bis serpent-bed, a ban put opon ber advent comes to an end, The Sage attained pure and perfect knowledge and so had His body raised on the serpent-bed in the month of Chaitra. Visnu rises from his serpent-bed in the month of Kārtika. Owing to this rising of the Sage like that of Visnu from the serpent-bed and owing to the resemblance of the complexion of the body of the Sage to that of the body of Visnu, the season mistook the Sage for Visnu and the month of Chaitra for the month of Kārtika. Owing to this mistake, the poet says, the autumnal season set in in the month of Chaitra. According to Jain scriptures, when Tirthakar attains pure and perfect knowledge all the seasons set in simultaneously. The other thing which deserves to be mentioned here is that of Sambara’s misbebaviour. At the time when Pārsva attained pure and perfect knowledge, Sambara bad oplifted a piece of rock as huge as a mountain with a desire to throw on the head of the Sage.
Stanza 47 - Ja! - resulting in misery. Je: gi apaकत्वात् सदोषः अन्तः परिणामः यस्याः सा । यद्वा दुष्टं अन्तं स्वरूपं यस्याः सा।
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