Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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on, Sagara, without affection and with depression, endured Priyadarśana like a finger consumed by disease. Nevertheless, from respect he treated her just as before. For a creeper which one has cherished is not rooted up, even though barren. Priyadarsana did not tell her husband about Aśokadatta's behaviour, with the idea, "I do not want to cause a quarrel between them." Then Sagara, considering worldly existence as a prison, made his wealth serve its purpose by employing it for the poor, etc. In course of time, all three, Sagara, Priyadarśanā, and Aśokadatta, completed their span of life and died.
Divisions of time and description of the Golden Age (109-156)
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Then Sagara and Priyadarśana were born in the form of twins in the southern part of Bharatakṣetra in Jambudvipa, in the middle part of the space between the Gangā and Sindhu,' ,181 in the third period in avasarpini, when there was the eighth part of a palya remaining. In the fiveBharata and Airavata-zones the twelve-spoked wheel of time is the basis of the law of time. Time is two-fold from the division into avasarpini and utsarpiņi. There are six spokes in avasarpini, beginning with Ekantasuṣamā (Pure Bliss). Of these Ekantasuṣamā lasts for four crores of crores of sagaras, and Susama (Bliss) for three; Susamaduḥṣamā (Bliss-Sorrow) for two, Duḥsamasuṣamā (SorrowBliss) for one crore of crores of sagaropamas minus fortytwo thousand years; Duhṣamā (Sorrow) lasts for twentyone thousand years, and Ekantaduhṣamā (Pure Sorrow) for the same measure of years. The spokes which are in avasarpiņi, these have been described. They are the
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All the MSS. I have seen have either the reading of the ed., gangasindhuttarasyäntarbhage, which is quite impossible, as it has already been stated that it is the southern half of Bharata; or gangasindhvantarasyantarbhage, which is not satisfactory either, but seems the less undesirable of the two.
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