Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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mountain herbs by moonlight. The body of a leper, if rubbed with just a particle of their phlegm, became golden like a heap of copper from koțivedha juice." The
16. Cakravarti
17. Baladeva
18. Vasudeva
19. Kṣiramadhusarpirāśrava-, two interpretations are given which include the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh of the text.
20. Kosthakabuddhi- twenty-first.
21. Padanusari- twenty-second
22. Bijabuddhi- twentieth.
23. Tejoleśyā-, the power to send out a hot-flash which causes destruction. This power is acquired by observing fasts of three days in succession for six months, each fast to be broken only by enough kulmāsa to fill the hollow of the hand and by a handful of water.
24. Aharaka- one of the 5 kinds of bodies. See note 157.
25. Sitalesya the power to send out a cold flash which extinguishes the hot-flash.
26. Vaikurvikadeha- includes II, nine to nineteen of the text.
27. Akṣīnamahānasi- twenty-eighth.
28. Pulaka-, a pulaka is the first of the 5 divisions of nirgranthas: pulāka, bahuşa, kusila, nirgrantha, snātaka. Pulāka, though least developed spiritually, has great power. He alone has power to defeat the army of a cakravartin. He displays his powers, however, which he should not do. See T. 9. 48, and for a detailed exposition Bhag. 751, pp. 891 ff.
This list omits the mapo-, vag-, and kayabala of our text, but these are included in a list in the Aup. (su. 15). The interpretations by the commentator are much simpler, however. Manobala is defined as 'firmness of mind'; vagbala as ability to carry out anything promised, or speech causing discomfiture to opponents'; kayabala as ' physical endurance.' Hem., in the commentary to Yog. 1. 8-9, gives a list which is more extensive than the one in the text.
The discrimination in regard to the persons who can gain these labdhis is interesting. All of them can be acquired by bhavya-men: but there are ten (nos. 15-18, 6, 10, 13, 14, 24, 28) which are not possible to bhavya-women-the other eighteen are; these ten exceptions plus nos. 8, 9, 12 are not possible to abhavya-men; all these exceptions plus no. 19 are impossible to abhavya-women. This is according to Pravac. loc. cit.
112 844. This liquid is also mentioned in the Prabandhacintamaṇi, Tawney, p. 173; Sk. ed. pp. 309-10.