Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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birth-bath. Free from passion, he polished it with a divine fragrant reddish cloth, like a good layman his own mind with faith. Then he anointed the image with yakşakardama-ointment 344 as if making a jacket of divine cloth. The King worshipped the Jina's image with varied wreaths of flowers, resembling in fragrance wreaths of flowers from the trees of heaven. He burned divine incense in a golden incense-burner, making a pūjā with its smoke like a pūjā of blue lotuses. Then he, wearing his upper garment, like the sun in the sign of Capricorn, 845 took the light-vessel brilliant with light, like the sun gaining brilliance. After he had put down the light vessel, Bāhu- . bali bowed with folded hands and recited a hymn of praise with devotion to Adinātha.
Stuti (372–379) “Disregarding my own ignorance, O All-knowing, I praise you. For my feeling of devotion, hard to restrain, makes me speak. O first Lord of the Tirtha, the light from the nails of your feet is victorious, forming a secure refuge for creatures terrified by the enemy existence. O God, fortunate people hasten daily, even from afar, to see your lotus-feet, like a king-goose (to lotuses). O God, you alone are made a refuge by the discerning, suffering from the terrible pain of samsāra, like the sun by those suffering from cold. For those who look at you, O Blessed One, with eyes unwinking from joy, an existence devoid of winking 346 will not be hard to attain in another world. O God, the stain of men's karma goes away by the words of your teaching, like the stain of orpiment from linen
844 367. Ointment consisting of camphor, aloes, musk, sandal, and kakkola.
845 370. There is, of course, a play on the double meaning of uttarāsanga. The sun enters Capricorn at the time of the winter solstice, and begins its journey to the north of the equator at that time. The uttariya is put on in a special way.
346 376. I.e., as a god. Gods do not wink.