Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

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

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CHAPTER SEVEN
years. Magic powers 266 were acquired by him enduring all the trials hard to endure, indifferent to any expedient for relief. The seven magic powers, namely: phlegm, viprus, dried perspiration, impurity, excrement, touch, and also 'everything,' are called remedies, 267
Just at that time Sakra, astonished in his heart, described him to the gods: "After resigning the glory of a cakravartin like a blazing bunch of straw, look! Sanatkumāra endures penance hard to endure. For even though all the magic powers have been acquired by the greatness of his penance, indifferent to the body, he does not cure his diseases.” Two gods, Vijaya and Vaijayanta,258 who did not believe that speech, went into his presence in the form of physicians. They said: "Illustrious sir, do you suffer from diseases? We are physicians. We cure everything by our own remedies. If you, whose body is consumed by disease, consent, we shall remove at once your aggravated diseases."
260 386. See I, pp. 75 ff. and n. III.
257 387. Kapha, vipruş, jalla, mala, viştā, āmrśa, and sarva. These 7 present some difficulties, as some of them are ordinarily synonymous. Vipruş is defined by Hem. himself in Yog. 1. 8. com. as uccāra, which is synonymous with vişta. Rājendra, PE, and PH support this; also Višes. 781. However, Leumann in his Āvaśyaka-Erzählungen takes it to be 'drops of water which fall from one's mouth when speaking.' He quotes from his com., 'prasravaņādi bindavah.' Also in our text below, 397, kaphaviprus apparently = kaphabindu. Jalla, Pravac., p. 430b, (com. to ga. 1492), is defined as mala arising from the ear, mouth, nose, eye, tongue, and from the body.' Mala is defined in the same way in Yog. 1. 8 com. and Trişaşți. 1. I. 845. It is hard, therefore, to see just what distinction to make between jalla and mala. From the Rājendra, PH, and PE, I think perhaps that jalla is limited to dried perspiration,' when a distinction must be made. In the other enumerations of the labdhis which I know, either jalla or mala is given, but not both; neither are viprus and vişta named together. In the Pk, version, vippa and jala occur. Sarvauşadhi means that the nails, hair, teeth, and every part of the body are medicines.
258 391. The same gods who were sceptical about his beauty. 13B