Set Of Eight Books

Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay
Publisher: Jain Siddhant Society

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Bhagavān Rşabha Swāmi-Final Emancipation of Maru-dėvi MātăSermon of Bhagavān Sri Rşabha Swami-Birth of Marsci-Dikşa of Marici Kumāra-Story of Angāra-dābaka-Marici Muni becoming slack in performing religious duties-Marsci Muni assuming the apparel of a Parivrājaka-mendicant-Bharata Chakravartin orders out five hundred bullock-carts full of food and drink materials-Tîrthankara Bhagavān Sri Rşabha-deva goes to Mount Aştāpada.-Explanation of avagrahas-In the Samavasaraṇa there, Bharata Cakravartin asks the Bhagavān whether there will be any other person who will become a Tîrthankara like himself in future or not? On Bhagavan's pointing out to him, his own son Maríci, who was sitting in a corner-dressed as a Parivrājaka-as a future Vāsudėva, a future Cakravartin, and as a future Tirthankara, the delighted Bharata Cakravartin went to Marsci and paid him honiage as a future TîrthankaraMarici rejoicing with joy and dancing frivolously out of pride for his noble birth, incurred the evil Karma of birth in low families-Nirvāņa (Final Emancipation) of Tîrthankara Bhagavān Sri Rşabha-deva Swāmi.-Kapila becomes a disciple of Marici-Some considerations about birth in a low famuly-Karma Philosophy-Kinds of Karmas.
CHAPTER VIL Fourth Previous Bhava as a god in. Brahma dòva-loka-Fifth Previous Bhava as a Brāhmaṇa named Kausika in Kollāga village-Sixth Bhava as a Brāhmaṇa named Puşpamitra in Sthuņāka village-Seventh Previous Bhava as a god in Saudharma dèva-loka-Eighth Previous Bhava as a Brā hmaņa named Agnidyota in Caitya-sannivèsa-Ninth Previous Bhava as a god in Iśāna deva-loka-Tenth Previous Bhava as a Brā bmaņa named Agnibhuti in Mandira village-Eleventh Previous Bhava as a god in Sanat Kumāra deva-loka-Twelfth Previ. ous Bhava as a Brāhmaṇa named Bhāradhvaja in Svetānı bikā
Ilirteenth Previous Bhava as a god in Mahendra dėva-loka Fourteenth Previous Bhava as a Brābnaņa named Kapila of
Rājagrita Nagara-Fifteenth Previous Bbava as a charming god ho Brahma devamloku.