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128
Stuti (602-9)
"Hail to you, Lord of the World, Sun to the lotus in the form of the three worlds, Wishing-tree in the desert of samsara, Friend for the rescue of all, this moment is to be praised in which took place the birth of you who have birth in dharma, not having rebirth, destroying pain of all creatures. Now Ratnaprabha, O Lord, is inundated by the streams of water from your birth-ablutions, its stain washed away without effort, pure. Indeed, those mortals are blessed who will see you day and night. What are we, compared with them, since we see you only on special occasions? The whole path to salvation which has been blocked for the creatures of Bharatakṣetra will become manifest through you, a new traveler, O Lord. Even the sight of you gives bliss to creatures, to say nothing of your nectar-like preaching of dharma. No one is a suitable subject for comparison with you, O you who cause passage across existence. If we describe you only as you are, in that case, what praise is there of you? I am not able to enumerate your attributes that really exist, O Lord.
ness, Givers of sight, Givers of the path, Givers of protection, Givers of enlightenment, Givers of dharma, Teachers of dharma, Leaders of dharma, Charioteers of dharma, Cakravartins of the earth of the best dharma, Possessors of unobstructed best knowledge and belief, Possessing freedom from error, Victors, Givers of victory, Achievers of the passage (of the ocean of existence), Makers of the passage, Enlightened, Makers of enlightenment, Emancipated, Makers of emancipation, Allknowing, All-seeing, who have attained the status called siddhigati which is blissful, immovable, free from disease, infinite, imperishab free from disturbance, from which there is no return; homage to the Jinas, who have conquered fear.'
This Sakrastava is used in connection with all the Jinas. Some verses are added in the KS which have specific reference to Mahavira. The sadhus add another verse when reciting it:
Ye catītāḥ siddha ye ca bhaviṣyantyanagate kāle Samprati ca vartamānāh sarvän trividhena vande.
I praise in the three ways all emancipated souls of the past, future, and present.
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