Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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Finally, twins were born from Śrīkāntā, boy and girl, named Nabhi and Marudevi. Five hundred and twenty-five bows tall, together they grew up like forgiveness and selfcontrol. Marudevā, with the beauty of the priyangu, and Nabhi, having the color of pure gold, looked like images of their parents from the identity of color. The life of these two noble persons was measured by numbered pūrvas and was somewhat less than Śrīkānta's and Marudeva's. After death Marudeva attained the status of a Dvipakumāra and Srikantā that of a Nagakumāra. After that Nabhi became the seventh patriarch of the twins, and ruled them properly by these three laws.
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The birth of Ṛsabha. The thirteenth incarnation (207-272)
When there remained in the third spoke of time eighty-four lacs of purvas plus eighty-nine fortnights, on the fourth day of the dark fortnight of the month Āṣāḍha, when the moon was in conjunction with the Uttarāṣāḍhā constellation, the soul of Sri Vajranābha, after completing a span of life to the extent of thirty-three sagaropamas, fell from Sarvārthasiddhi and descended into the womb of Marudevi, the wife of Sri Nabhi, as a hansa
would descend from Lake Mānasa to the bank of the Mandakini. At the time when the Master descended, for a moment there was happiness for all creatures in the three worlds from the destruction of pain, and also a great light. Then Marudevi, asleep in her bed-chamber, saw fourteen great dreams on the night of the avatar. (First) A bull, white, massive-shouldered, with a long, straight tail; with a wreath of golden bells like lightning in an autumn-cloud. (Second) A king-elephant, four-tusked, white, gradually swelling, charming with a trickling stream of ichor, like a living Kailasa. (Third) A lion, red-eyed,
188 204. Heretofore the twins had lived for numberless pūrvas of
years.