Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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taking drink. Engaged in meditation, recalling the homage to the Five Supreme Ones," he died after fasting for twenty-two days. He went immediately to the fśānaheaven, hard to attain, by means of merit acquired, as if by divine horses.
Then he was born in the hollow 78 of a couch in the palace Śriprabha, like a mass of lightning in a cloud. He had a divine form, symmetrical, his body free from the seven elements, a his body was soft as a sirişa-flower, the sky was filled with his beauty, he had an adamantine body, was very powerful, was marked with favourable characteristics, could change his form at will, possessed clairvoyant knowledge, was proficient in all kinds of knowledge, endowed with magic-powers to make himself small, etc.,75 was free from blemishes, had inconceivable glory, and was named 'Lalitānga' in the true sense of the word. On his feet were jeweled anklets, a girdle around his hips, a pair of bracelets on his wrists, a pair of armlets on his arms, a string of pearls on his chest, a necklace on his neck, ear-rings in the lobes of his ears, and a wreath and diadem on his head-such a collection of ornaments and divine garments, and with them youth, the ornament of the whole body.
A drum sounded, making the heavens resound with *.71 459. Pañcaparamęsthinamaskriyā. Namo arihantāṇam, namo siddhāṇam, namo āyariyāṇam, namo uvajjhāyāṇam, namo loe sabbasā. hūņam.
Homage to the Arhats, Siddhas, Ācāryas, Upadhyāyas, and to all the Sadhus in the world. Pañcaprati. 1, p. I.
72 461. 'Birth' is not a strictly accurate translation of upapāda. The gods and hell-inhabitants are not born,' but come into existence spontaneously.
78 461 Sayanasamputa. The usual description of the couch is high on both sides and depressed in the middle' (Tri. 2. 2. 53. B. p. 16). I think sampuţa must refer to the depression.
74 462. Dhātu. In Jain terminology these are chyle, blood, filesh, fat, bone, marrow, semen. KG I. 48, p. 46a. 1.76 464. See note 111.