Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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Just then, some one brought the merchant a dish filled with ripe mangoes that looked like fragments of a twilightcloud. Then Dhana, whose mind was filled with delight, said, “Favor me and accept this fruit." The Sūri said, “We are not allowed to even touch such fruit, etc., that has not been purified, to say nothing of eating it, o layman." Dhana said, “Oh, what observance of vows hard to observe! Such is impossible for careless men even for a day. I will see that you get food, etc., that is suitable for you. Please set out, today." And bowing to the muni, he left him.
Then the merchant set out with horses, camels, carts, and oxen moving to and fro, like the ocean with its high waves. The Ācārya too set out, surrounded by sādhus, like the embodied mūlagunas followed by the uttaraguņas.19 Dhana went at the head of the caravan and a friend of his, Māṇibhadra, brought up the rear. They advanced unhindered, attended by multitudes of horsemen at their sides. With his white umbrellas he made the sky look as if it were made of autumn clouds, and with his peacock-feather umbrellas he made it look as if made of rainy-season clouds. His merchandise, difficult to carry, was carried by camels, buffaloes, fine oxen, mules and donkeys, like the earth by the
19 64. The mūlaguņas are the same as the mahāvratas and therefore 5 in nuinber. The uttaraguņas are any additional acts of self-denial and various authors give different numbers. Hem. him. self (Yog. p. 251a) says mūlagunas for yatis are the mahāvratas, and for laymen the aņuvratas. Uttaraguņas for yatis are pindavi. suddhi, etc., and for laymen the guņa- and sikşāvratas. The 'piņdavi. śuddhi, etc.,' is explained (Yog. 1. 26, p. 41b):
Piņdasya yā viśodhiḥ samitayo bhāvanās tapo dvividham,
Pratimā abhigrahascaiva uttaraguņavidhānāni.
Pindavisodhi has 4 subdivisions--the 4 kinds of food; samiti 5; bhāvanā 25, (each mahāvrata has 5 supporting clauses, Yog. 1. 25, pp. 41 f); tapas 12; pratimā 12 (sådhupratimās); abhigraha 4, with
reference to substance, time, place, and condition.