Risabha Deva

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

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favourite wife of the Emperor, saw the Indrāni (the Queen of the first Heaven) consoling Yaśasvati and Sunandā, the two co-wives of the Lorl! The Prime Minister of Bharata saw a Jewel Island rising up in the sky; and Chitrangada, one of the sons of King Akampana, beheld the Sun vanishing into the sky with great lustre !
These dreams created a sensation in Ajudhya and Vārānasi. Bharata was still discussing then with his men when one Ananada brought the news of the Samavasaranr, and of the WORLD TEACHER's applying Himself to the eradication of His re naining karmas. The Emperor imine liately proces led to the Mount Kailāśa on the aerial vehicles of his Vidyā ihara feu latory kinys, and there performed the worship known as the Mahamaha for a fortnight.
At last on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the month of Māgha, at the time of sunrise, when the moon was passing out of the Abhijit (the tail of the Uttarāşādha) constellation, the Lord resorted to the third forin of the holy Shukla dhyāna (self-contemp. lation), terned sukshmakriyabratipāti (literally having the slightest bodily tinge), and destroyed the three channels of the approach of matter, na mely, the mind speech and the body! He iinmediately attained to the fourteenth and the last gunasthāna (psychological station on the Path), from where adoptiong the last form of the holy self contemplation (vyuprata kriyanivriti signifying a cessation of all kinds of organic