Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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sounds of the drum of the gods, accompanied by women singing auspicious songs, surrounded by the citizens like a heap of merit originating by the power of the Lord, entered the samavasarana by the east gate. After it had circumambulated the Lord three times, the oblation was thrown up before him, like a strong, unexcelled seed of the grain of happiness. As it was falling from the sky, half of it was taken in mid-air by the gods, like rain-water by the cãtakas. The Lord of Bharata took half of what fell to the ground, and the people took the rest, dividing it like members of a family. From the power of the oblation, all diseases which had formerly appeared disappear and do not reappear for six months.
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Then the Lord rose and went away by the north gate, accompanied by the Indras of the gods, like a mass of lotuses by bees. The Blessed One rested on a dais in the northeast between the jeweled and gold ramparts. Then Rṣabhasena, the face-ornament of ganabhrts occupying the Blessed One's footstool, delivered a sermon on dharma. Removal of the Master's weariness, display of the disciples' qualities, and reliance on each other, are the qualities of the ganabhṛts' preaching. When the gaṇadhara had completed his sermon dharma, all departed to their respective homes, after bowing to the Master. A. Guhyaka (Yakṣa), named Gomukha, who appeared in the congregation, adorned with two right arms-one in varada-position one holding a rosary, and with two left ones-one holding a citron and one a noose, gold-color, having elephant-vehicle, became the Lord's attendant. Apraticakra, gold-color, with a garuḍa-seat, with one right arm in varada-position and the others holding an arrow, disc, and noose, her left arms holding a bow, thunderbolt, disc, and goad, originated in that congregation and became the Lord's messenger-deity.
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