Book Title: Sachitra Tirthankar Charitra
Author(s): Amarmuni, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Padma Prakashan

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________________ ऋषभ अजित सम्भव अभिनन्दन सुमति पद्मप्रभ APPENDIX 3 THE UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES OF A TIRTHANKAR सिंह (A) THE THIRTY FOUR UNIQUE ATTRIBUTES OF A TIRTHANKAR गज वृषभ लक्ष्मी The Tirthankars are worshipped as the loftiest beings in this world because they acquire infinite knowledge, perception, purity of conduct, and power by destroying the four vitiating Karmas at spiritual level. This gives rise to unique attributes in them, both at spiritual and physical levels. In canonical terms those are known as Atishaya or out of ordinary. These are 1. There is no growth of hair on the 16. Pleasant wind blows. body. 17. Dust is settled due to moisture. 2. The body remains free of any 18. There are heaps of five types of ailment. lifeless flowers around him. 3. The blood and flesh are milky 19. There is absence of unpleasant white. sound, form, smell, colour and 4. The breath is fragrant like lotus. touch around him and pleasant 5. Food intake and excretion are things appear. invisible. 20-21. His voice is heard with same volume and clarity upto a distance 6. Above the head there are three of one Yojan. canopies (umbrellas) in the sky. 22. His discourse is in Ardha-Magadhi 7. A wheel, symbolic of religion, language. moves ahead and behind him in the sky. 23. All present in the audience understand his discourse in their 8. At both flanks there are white respective languages. whisks in the sky. 24. In his proximity the natural 9. The throne is made of crystal enemies forget their animosity. quartz 25. His opponents become amiable. 10. The flag of Indra moves ahead of him. 26. His dissenters become speechless. 27-28. Twenty five Yojans around him 11. Wherever he stays there is an there is no epidemic or death. Ashok tree. 29-33. Wherever he goes there are no 12. There is a divine aura around him. afflictions self-inflicted or inflicted 13. The land around him is pleasant. by others including flood, drought. 14. Thorns get reversed. diseases, etc. 15. The seasons are pleasant and 34. The touch of his feet pacifies withe favourable earlier disturbances of the area. Illustrated Tirthankar Charitra (828) सचित्र तीर्थकर चरित्र पुष्पमाला चन्द्र विमल अनन्त धर्म शान्ति Jared Terracotados TUTTG-sorar ostromy www.jamemorary.org

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