Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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eye had become combined in one living body. Bāhu and the others were learned in eleven angas. For the wealth of merit is varied in accordance with the variation in destruction (kşaya) and subsidence (upaśama) of karma.110 Although rich in contentment, they were never satisfied with service at the Tirthankara's feet and with severe penance. Constantly drinking the nectar of the Tirthankara's speech, they did not become emaciated even with penance, such as a month's fast, etc. The Blessed One, Vajrasena, resorted to the last pure meditation and attained emancipation which was celebrated with a great festival by the gods.
Vajranābha, like a brother of dharma, surrounded by munis, brothers in the vow, wandered over the earth. Bāhu and the other brothers and the charioteer had their lord in the Master Vajranābha, like the five senses subject to the mind. By the power of their yoga all the magic powers, 111 phlegm, etc., became apparent like
110 837. See Chap. III.
111 843. The subject of the labdhis is treated by several of the commentators with varying details. The most complete list which I know is in the Pravac. 1492-1508, p. 430. Most of the names are self-explanatory in the light of our text.
1. Amarśausadhilabdbi=third of the text. 2. Viprudauşadhiz 3. Khelauşadhi-(śleşman)=first of the text. 4. Jallauşadhi-(mala)=second of the text.
Sarvauşadhi- zeighth of the text. 8. Sambhinnaśroto- =thirtieth of the text. 7. Avadhijñāna-, clairvoyant knowledge. 8. Rjumatijñāna- The two divisions of manahparyāyajñāna, 9. Vipulamatijñāna- mind-reading knowledge.'
10. Cāraņa- =thirty-first and thirty-second of the text. See n. 114.
II. Āśīvișa- poison-toothed,'=thirty-third of the text. 12. Kevali13. Ganadhara-. 14. Pūrvadhara15. Arhat