Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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siddha in form, a person can be like him by service to him, the Master, alone. I am the Master's slave; you are his servants. As the fruit of service to him, I give you lordship over the Vidyādharas. Know that it has been obtained only by service to the Master, look you, not Otherwise. For light on earth, even though produced at dawn, is produced only by the sun." After enlightening them in this way, he gave them the forty-eight thousand vidyās, 218 Gauri, Prajñapti, etc., which accomplish results by (their) recitation. He instructed them: “Go to Vaitāļhya, found two rows of cities there, establish imperishable sovereignty." Bowing to the Arhat, they made (by magic) a car named Puspaka. Ascending it, they set out with the lord of serpents. They went and told their fathers, Kaccha and Mahākaccha, about their new prosperity that was the fruit of the tree of service to the Master. They went and told their success to the Lord of Ayodhyā. For the fruitful accomplishment of their purpose on the part of the determined is shown by position.
Description of Vaitadhya (175–85) Taking their families and all their retinue and ascending the best of cars, they went to Vaitādhya. They landed on Mt. Vaitādhya which is kissed by the mass of waves of the Lavaņa Ocean at its borders, placed like a measuring-rod between the east and west quarters ; a boundary between the northern and southern parts of Bharata, fifty yojanas wide north and south; buried six and a quarter yojanas in the earth, twenty-five yojanas high ; embraced on all sides by the Gangā and Sindhu rivers as if by Mt. Hima with arms stretched out from afar; possessing caves named Khandaprapātā
218 170. The vidyās here are mantras. The KS. 1.212 (K. P. 153a) gives the number as 48 only, but does not give the names, except of 4 mahāvidyās, Gauri, Gāndhārı, Rohiņi, Prajñapti.
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