Risabha Deva

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

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CHAPTER XI
NIRVANA.
When a fortnight remained in the life of the WORLD TEACHER the Samavasaranı dispersed; and the Lord proceeded to accomplish the destruction of the remainin; karmic forces of the non-inimical type that were still present in His Great Spirit. It was the last (Purnamāśi ) day in the month of Pausa on which He seated Himself in the middle of the two summits Sri śikhara and Siddha śikhara of the Mount Kailāsa, and applied Himself to pure Self-contemplation of the higher type. He sat in the sitting posture, facing the East.
On the night preceding the Purnamāśi day, Bharata and others had seen several portentous dreams, towards the end of the last watch. Bharata saw the huge Mountain Meru extending to the Place of the Perfect Ones. His son Arkakirti saw a huge Tree possessing medicinal properties moving up towards the heavens, after curing living beings of their ailments! The Chamberlain of the household of the Emperor, too, saw a dream, in which he saw a huge Wish-fu:filling Tree, capable of gratifying all kinds of wishes, rising up in the sky! Jaya Varma's son, Anantaveerya beheld the bright Moon ascending into the higher regions of the Sky, surrounded by a number of stars ! Her Imperial Majesty Queen Subhadrā, the daughter-in-law of the WORLD TEACHER and the