Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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The sole king in the three worlds shone with three hundred sixty-three cooks, like the year with days. 321 He inaugurated customs on earth by the eighteen guilds and their sub-divisions, as the son of Nābhi had done by the alphabets. He shone with eighty-four lacs of elephants, horses, and chariots, and with ninety-six crores of infantry and villages. He was supreme lord of thirtytwo thousand peoples, and lord of seventy-two thousand of the best cities. He was supreme lord of ninety-nine thousand towns accessible both by land and sea 822 (droņamukha), sovereign of forty-eight thousand towns approached by land only or water only (pattana). He was ruler of poor towns (karbața), and isolated towns (mądamba). with a high degree of wealth to the number of twenty-four thousand. He was tax-lord of twenty thousand mines, and governor of sixteen thousand towns with earthen walls (kheța). He was lord of fourteen thousand places where grain is stored (sambādha), and overlord of fifty-six island settlements (antarodaka). He was chief of fortynine poor dominions (kurājya), and governor of others also in Bharatakşetra,
Initiation of Sundari (728-797). Continuing to exercise unbroken overlordship in Vinitā, he began to remember his own family, at the end of the coronation-festival. After a separation of sixty
321 719. No year of 363 days figures in the ordinary Hindu reckoning. Jainācārya Jaya Suriji informed me there was in Jain reckoning a Yuga of 3 lunar years and 2 abhivardhita years (of 365 days), and that once in 80 years the first abhivardhita year had 363 days.
822 723. This group of place-names occurs quite often. I have adopted the definitions of the Jain commentators rather than those of the lexicons where they differ, as I think Hemacandra hiinself would undoubtedly follow the commentators. My definitions are from KSK. 1. 88, p. 731. Cf. Jacobi, Uttar. p. 176 and notes 3-II, where the chief divergence is in the case of samhādha, which is defined as 'an open town.' For antaradaka and kurāiya see Jamb. 69, p. 277b.