Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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May Śreyārsa, the sight of whom is a physician for creatures afflicted with the disease of existence, the lover of the Sri of emancipation, be for your emancipation.
May Vāsupūjya, whose acquisition of Tirthakrt-karma has been beneficial to the whole universe, entitled to worship from gods, asuras and men, purify you.
May the words of Vimala Svāmin which are like powdered clearing-nut, be successful in clarifying the water of the mind of the three worlds.
May Anantajit, rivaling the Svayambhuramana ocean with water of the feeling of compassion, bestow on you the boundless wealth of happiness.
We worship Dharmanātha, the teacher of fourfold dharma, 10 like a kalpa-tree for attainment of creatures' desires.
May the Jina Sāntinātha, who has brightened the quarters of the sky by the moonlight of his nectar-like words, be a moon to you for dispelling (mental) darkness.
May the Blessed Sri Kunthunātha, lord of the wealth of the supernatural powers, 11 supreme lord of the lords of gods, asuras and men, be for your emancipation.
14. Tirthakrt-karma is a subdivision of nāma (body-making) karma. See App. II.
10 17. For dharma, see below, vv. 152 ff.
11 19. These atisayas, of which there are 34, are characteristics of the Arhats. They are enumerated in Hemacandra's Abhidhāna. cintāmaņi 1. 57–64. The body has wonderful beauty and fragrance, is free from disease. free from perspiration and dirt: breath has fragrance of a lotus; flesh and blood are white as a stream of cow's milk; process of eating and elimination is not visible. These are 4 inborn atisayas.
For a crore of crores of men, gods, and animals to be contained in the space of a yojana; speech corresponding to the speech (bhāşa) of men, animals and gods, and extending for a yojana ; a beautiful halo at the back of the head, whose splendor surpasses that of the sun; in the space of 200 gavyūtis there is no sickness, hostility, plague, pestilence, excess nor lack of rain, hunger,