Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

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

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CHAPTER TWO
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Vāsupujya's omniscience (282–284) Now, after wandering for a month as an ordinary ascetic, the Lord of the Three Worlds, Vāsupūjya, came to the garden of initiation, Vihāragļha. While he was beneath a păţalā, the Lord's destructive karmas broke at the end of the second pure meditation, like darkness at dawn. On the second day of the bright fortnight of Māgha, the moon being in conjunction with Satabhişaj, the Lord's omniscience arose at the time of a one-day fast. The Master delivered a sermon in a divine samavasaraņa to the sixty-six gaṇabhrts, Sūkşma, et cetera.
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Śāsanadevatās (286-289) Originating in that congregation, a Yakşa, named Kumāra, whose vehicle was a hansa, white, carrying a citron and an arrow in his two right hands, and an ichneumon and a bow in his two left hands, became Väsupūjya's messenger-deity. Likewise appeared Candrā, dark colored, with a horse for a vehicle, with one right hand in varada-position and one holding a spear, and with left hands holding a flower and a club, a messenger-deity of the Lord, always near at hand.
Closely attended by them, the Blessed One wandered over the earth and came one day to the environs of Dvārakā. Then Sakra and the other gods erected a samavasaraña with an aśoka which was eight hundred and forty bows high. The Supreme Lord circumambulated the aśoka, saying, "Homage to the congregation," and sat down on the lion-throne, facing the east. By his power the gods made three images of the Lord in the other directions which were just like him. The holy fourfold congregation sat in the proper places; the animals inside the middle wall, and draft-animals inside the lowest (outside) wall.
Then royal agents went to Sārngin quickly and, their eyes dilated (from joy), told him that the Master had come to the samavasaraņa. Hari gave them twelve and a half