Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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Śris of mokṣa. At each door were sixteen jeweled arches made of jewels like creepers of punya that had sprung up on all sides before one's eyes. At each door were sixteen auspicious groups of the eight auspicious things, like the letters of an inscription placed on the palace gate. At these doors there were extensive entrance-pavilions, as if the assembly-halls of the four Dikpālas had been brought. In front of these four entrance-pavilions were theater-pavilions inside śrivallipavilions. 408 In the center of the theater-pavilions were courts made of diamond which put to shame the sun. In the center of each court was a beautiful jeweled lion-throne like a pericarp in a lotus. In front of each theater-pavilion was a jeweled platform and on it was a jeweled caitya-stūpa. In front of each of the caitya-stūpas in each direction was an extensive jeweled platform which lighted up the sky. On
each one of them were beautiful immortal statues of the Jinas, moonlight to the lotus of the eye, like those inside a shrine in the Nandiśvaradvipa, five hundred bows tall, facing the caitya-stūpas, the body made of jewels, Rṣabha, Vardamāna, Candrānana and Varişeņa 404 in the paryańka posture. In front of each of the caitya-stūpas was a large beautiful platform made of priceless gems. In front of each of these platforms were caitya-trees and in front of each caitya-tree was a jeweled platform. Above each one of these was an indradhvaja, and in each direction a pillar of victory Quoted in MW as 'Acacia concinna and a kind of jasmine.' Neither seems appropriate here. But it is very usual for temporary pavilions for weddings, etc., to be erected with only a framework of wood covered with strings of flowers in which jasmine is abundant. Perhaps such a pavilion is meant.
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573. Śrīvalli (?).
404 579. Rṣabha and Vardhamana (Mahāvīra) are the first and twenty-fourth Tirthankaras of the present era in Bharatakṣetra. Candranana is one of the present era in Videhakṣetra (see Śāśvatajinastavana) and Variṣeņa the twenty-fourth of the present era in Airavatakṣetra (Pravac. 298, p. 81b).