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CHAPTER V SUPĀRŚVANĀTHACARITRA
May the words of the teaching of Jinendra Sri Supārsva protect you, like the waves of the ocean of omniscience overflowing its bank. I shall relate the life of Sri Supārsva, the seventh Arhat, which is a sunny day for the darkness of wrong knowledge of all creatures.
Incarnation as Nandişeņa (4-11)
There is a city, Ksemapuri, in the province Ramaņiya distinguishing East Videha in Dhātakīkhandadvīpa. Its king was Nandişena, delighting the world, resplendent as the sun, the sole abode of splendor. Dharma was the minister, the right arm, as it were, of him always watchful in the business of the entire kingdom. When he destroyed persons, who had become thorns, for the people's happiness, even his anger was for dharma. How much more the actions in question ! And what was extraordinary, the Blessed One, the Holy Saint, constantly located within the sphere of his memory, became lying in his heart. He was always the refuge for removal of pain from the afflicted, but in no way at no time for the love-sick wives of others. As time passed, he, noble-minded, became tired of worldly existence and took initiation under Arindamana Acārya. Observing his vow zealously, the great muni acquired the body-making karma of a Tirthankara by some of the sthānakas. The great muni fasted at the right time, died, and became a powerful god in the sixth Graiveyakabeaven,
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