Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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Since a bull was the mark on the thigh of the Lord of the World, and since a bull was seen first by his mother in her dream, the delighted parents named him Rşabha, with a festival on an auspicious day. Then the parents gave a suitable purifying name also, Sumangalā, to the daughter born as his twin. The Master sucks the nectar placed in his own thumb by Śakra at suitable times, like a tree absorbing water from a canal. The Blessed One, placed on his father's lap as a child, shone like a beautiful young lion on a mountain slope. The five nurses, appointed by Sakra, certainly did not leave the Supreme Lord at all, like the samitis a great muni. A little less than a year after the Lord's birth, the Vasava of Saudharma came with the object of establishing a family-line. As if with the thought, "A servant, empty-handed, must not see the Master," he took a large stalk of sugar-cane. Sunasira with the stalk of sugar-cane like autumn-time personified, 172 went before the Master seated on Nabhi's lap. The Lord, having known Śakra's intention by clairvoyant knowledge, raised his hand, like an elephant its trunk, to take the stalk of sugar-cane. Bending his head, knowing the Master's intention, Sakra gave the shoot of sugar-cane like a present. Then the Lord-of-the-sky went to heaven, having established the Master's family with the name 'Ikṣvāku,' because the sugar-cane was taken by the Lord.
The body of Yugādinātha was free from perspiration, disease and dirt, fragrant, with a beautiful shape, like a golden lotus; flesh and blood were white as a stream of cow's milk, free from odor of flesh; the process of eating and eliminating food was not visible to the eye; the fragrance of his breath resembled the fragrance of a fullblown lotus; these four manifestations of supernatural powers appeared with his birth. The Lord, having a
172 656. Formerly in Gujarat sugar-cane was planted in December and ripened in September or October. Now it is planted in May and June.