Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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Sec. IV
STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SUTRA
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complete omniscience ( Kevalujšānı) and self-awareness or intuition (Darśana) by the Master.
The ninth one of a great Manusottara mountain covered with and surrounded by its own blue and grey rays of colour signified the noble glory, praise, honour and fame of Sramana Lord Mahāvīra travelled to the celestial, human and Asura (demon-gou) worlds.
The tenth one of his own soul seated on the best throne on the peak of one great Mandira mountain meant that the Master, being seated among gods, human beings and Asuragods expounded Kevalajfilāna' (omniscience). There are also other examples of dream-vision given in the Bhs. They are as follows:
"If a man or a woman beholds a big row of horses or a flock of elephants or a herd of oxen in dream and thinks hin or herself mounted by mounting them or he or she beholds one long rope stretching eastward and westward touching both the seas, contracts himself or herself by contracting (it), thinks himself or herself contracted, or he or she beholds one long rope stretching to the east and west and touching both the borders of the Universe, cuts it and thinks himself or herself cut thus, then he or she will attain liberation and put an end to all miseries just at the present moment'?.
If he or she perceives a big black yarn....... upto white yarn and confuses, thinks himself or herself confused thus. he or she will attain salvation and put an end to all miseries by the very life."
Thus the dream vision of "a heap of iron or that of copper or that of tin or that of lead and mounting on it or that of silver or gold or a pile of wood or leaves or skin or straw or husk or ashes or dust and its scattering" experienced by one, indicated his or her attainment of salvation by the second birth.
i Bhs, 16, 6, 580.
23 IB, 16, 6, 581,