Risabha Deva

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD
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its electric thrill for a pissing moment; the thrones of the Indras of heavens shook as if by the invisible agitation of a wireless wave !
Again the devas joined with men in celebrating the Birth of a God. They assembledia the Royal Palace, filling the earth and the sky, and uttering ceaseless cries of Victory. The devas performed an abhiseka (ablution) ceremony of the Divine Baby. The Queen of the Heavens decorated the person of the Lord of the three worlds with her own hands. Many heavenly Jewels were put on the person of the Lord. Then
overjoyed devotes proceeded to the Palace of Nabhi Raja. Great celebrations followed in the Palace. The devas orgai:ized private theatricals, and much excellent singing and acting were seen by the mortal man that day. The Indra himself executed a orilliant dance out of sheer joy, to the great delight of all. The lord of a body that instantly obeys all impuls es of the will, his dance was a wonder in itself. He changed many forms in the course of his movements, each one more wonderful than the rest, Such joy, such happiness was unheard of in Ajudhya before !
The child Tirthamkara was endowed by birth with clairvoyance and the knowledge of all kinds of arts and sciences. He needed no instructions to acquire wisdom or the knowledge of the three R.s. All the noble virtues had their abcde, so to speak, in His being. Excerement_urine, fæces and the like-were not formed in His body; His blood was white, like