Temple of Satrunjaya

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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Pratipada, the sage with many other believers will have to undergo great sufferings. Sakra himself, insecure on his throne, will assume the form of a Vipra (Brahmana) to convert Kalki, but, as he will not yield, he will be killed by Sakra at the end of the eighty-sixth year of his life. His son and successor Datta, having learned the Jaina doctrine from Sakra himself, will raise many Arhat-caityas, besides performing a pilgrimage to Satrunjaya, and he will always follow the directions of his Guru and be careful to do harm to no one.
Thus, the Jaina religion will continue till the end of the pancama ārā. Then later in the Duhsama age, people will entirely abandon dharma (the law), their lives will be short, they will be consumed by diseases, and oppressed with taxes; the kings will be avaricious, dishonest, and cowardly, the women immoral; and the villages like cemeteries. The people will become more and more depraved, and will shamelessly and pitilessly insult their teachers and the gods. The last good people in Bharatavarsa will be the Acarya Duhprasaha, the Sadhvi (female teacher) Phalgusri, the pious Sravaka Nagila, the Sravika Satyasri, the king Vimalavahana, and the minister Sumukha. By the direction of Duhprasaha, the king Vimalavahana will go on pilgrimage to the Vimaladri-vihara (Satrunjaya). The people will be only two hands high, and will live only twenty years; the clouds will only occasionally do their duty, but mostly not at all.
Thus, the Duhsama will last for 21,000 years. The ekanta Duhsama will last as long, when men will shamelessly dwell in caves and eat fish. Satrunjaya will then be only seven hands high, and will regain its former height only in the Utsarpini period. 117
Thus much for the legend.
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Satr. Mahat., XIV. 312-324; Weber, pp. 47, 8.