Book Title: Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3
Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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________________ SANATKUMĀRACAKRICARITRA 195 Then Sanatkumāra said: "Sir doctors, people's diseases are twofold, bodily and spiritual. Anger, conceit, deceit, and greed are people's spiritual diseases which produce endless pain, following into a thousand births. If you are able to cure these, then cure them, by all means; but if you cure bodily diseases, just look at this!” Then he raised his finger which was torn and had an oozing scab and at once made it golden with a drop of his own phlegm, like copper with mercury. When they saw the finger shining like a golden rod, they fell at his feet and said: “We, the same gods who came formerly to inspect your beauty, have come now also. Indra described you, The blessed Sanatkumāra, even though he has the magic arts perfected, performs penance, enduring the pain of disease.' That has been tested before our eyes by us who have come here." With these words the gods bowed and departed. His death (402-404) The age of the fourth cakrin was three lacs of years— half a lac as prince, the same as governor, ten thousand years in the conquest of the quarters, ninety thousand years as cakrin, and a lac in the vow. When he knew that it was time for his death, when his life of three lacs of years was completed, Sanatkumāra fasted to death with pure meditation and the homage to the Pañcaparameșthins and was born a god in the heaven Sanatkumāra. May this fourth book from the ocean with jewels in the form of texts in which are described twenty-two personsfive Arhats, five Sirins, five Upendras, five enemies of these (Prativāsudevas) and two Cakrins—be for your good fortune. Something from the sūtras is related here, something from fiction, something from yogapața.269 If there is anything false in these, may it be the wicked deeds that are false, good people. 269 406. Yogapata (pațţa) is the secret traditional knowledge handed down orally by a guru to a disciple as his successor. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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