Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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because of its coolness," just as fish burned by summer midday heat cling to duckweed. Slowly shaking the blanket above the cow's body, the doctor made the worms fall. Indeed, treachery is never present in the good. Then Jivananda soothed the muni with gośīrṣasandal which gives life to creatures like nectar. As only the worms which were in the skin came out from this, Jivānanda anointed again the muni with oil. From that anointing again many worms that were in the flesh came out, like liquids from the vital air that is in the throat and rises upwards. The worms stuck to the jeweled blanketcover in the same way as bacteria of curds more than two days old stick to a cloth with red lac. Again he made the worms fall from the jeweled blanket on the cow's body in the same way as before. Oh, the knowledge and skill of the doctor! Jivananda made comfortable the muni with showers of juice of gośirṣa-sandal, just as a cloud makes comfortable with rain an elephant tormented by summer heat. By another anointing the worms in the bones came out. There is no staying even in adamant cages when the very strong are angry. Again he shook the worms clinging to the jeweled blanket on the cow's body. A low abode is suitable for the low. Again the best of doctors smeared the muni with gośirşa-sandal at once with the greatest devotion as if he were a god. The muni, handsome because of the fresh skin that had been produced by the applied remedies, looked like a polished golden statue. When these men skilled in devotion had asked his forgiveness (for any fault they might have committed), he, patient as the earth, went elsewhere to wander. For such as he can remain nowhere.
Endowed with plenty of shrewdness, they sold the remaining gośirşa-sandal and the jeweled blanket and received gold. With that gold and gold of their own they had built a lofty Jain temple that was like the
92 765. The worms were burned by the oil.