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paying homage to the Lord of the World, the Cakrabhịt sat near, like the shadow of his body. The thrones of the Indras shook as if to say, “Why are they sitting on us, when the Lord is so situated ?" Knowing by clairvoyant knowledge the cause of the thrones' shaking, the sixtyfour Indras went quickly to the Indra of the Jinas. After making pradakşiņā and bowing to the Lord of the World, they remained seated, sorrowful, as if painted.
When eighty-nine fortnights of the third spoke in this avasarpiņi remained, in the forenoon of the thirteenth day of the dark half of Māgha; the constellation Abhici 307 being in conjunction with the moon; seated thus in paryanka posture, remaining in coarse body-activity, he suppressed coarse speech- and mind-activity. When he had suppressed coarse body-activity by fine body-activity, he suppressed fine speech- and mind-activity. Thus gradually the Lord attained the third pure meditation called sūkşmakriya with fine body-activity given up.898 Then he engaged in the fourth pure meditation named utsannakriya long enough for the utterance of five short letters. All pain abandoned, possessing infinite knowledge and perception, his karma destroyed, his object accomplished, endowed with infinite power and bliss, having an upward course like the seed of the castor-bean, because of absence of earthly bondage the Lord went to mokṣa by a straight path because of his own nature.
The ten thousand munis who had undertaken fasting,
are crossed so the foot of one lies on the other about the knee, with the sole up. The hands are held at the waist, the right on top of the left, with the palms up. Yog. 4.125.
897 484. The usual form is Abhijit, but all the MSS. agree. The Pk. is Abhii.
898 487. Astao is in all the MSS., but if this reading is correct, the statement is not strictly accurate. Fine body-activity' is only breathing, and as soon as that is suppressed, obviously one dies. This happens in the fourth, not the third, pure meditation. It is begun in the third, but not completed.
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