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PREFACE : XXIX
One tormented by birth and death as also decay and disease becomes free from death (gains liberation) by remembering the Pundarika hill. (verses 85–92)
The author says that a poor person, who always devotedly remembers Satruñjava hill, instantly gains worldly and spiritual wealth. Further, by remembering Pundarika hill an unmarried girl gets a good bridegroom, the mother desirous of a son gets a son and a miserable person becomes happy. By stating the glory of Pundarika hill by many such examples, the author says that one gains the fruit of a day long fast by offering ten flower-garlands at the Satruñjaya hill, that of two days long fast by offering twenty flower-garlands, that of three days long fast by offering thirty, that of four days long fast by offering forty, that of five days long fast by offering fifty flower-garlands and that of a fifteen days long fast by offering charity there. (verses 93–97)
According to this work a person gains the fruit of a month long fast by offering fragrant substances such as Camphor, Agaru, Lobān and Dhūpa (Joss and Incense) and by offering charity to a monk there, one gains the fruit of monthlong fast undertaken in the lunar month of Kärtika. Stating the result of constructing a Jina temple at the Pundarika hill it has been said that one who constructs a Jina temple there while observing the fast for the lunar month of Vaišākha, becomes an emperor (Cakravarti) and marries sixty-four thousand young women. (verses 98-99)
In order to illustrate the result of establishing a Jina idol in a temple at the Satruñjaya hill, the author says that the fruit that can be gained by establishing a Jina idol at an expenditure of a hundred thousand coins at other places can be gained by spending only a thousand coins at Satrunjaya hill. Stating the glory of
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