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CHAPTER THREE The queens also, desiring emancipation, discerning, pure-hearted, took the vow under Arya Vimalamati. In his wandering Kanakasakti went to Mt. Siddhipada and stood in pratimā on a rock for a night, resolute. When the god Himacūla, evil-hearted, had seen him motionless as a pillar, he began to make attacks on him. The Vidyadharas angrily frightened away the wretch of a god who was making attacks on him. People are on the side of the good. When he had completed the pratimā, he, a mountain of heaps of penance, went in his wandering to the city Ratnasañcayā. In a grove there, named Sūranipāta, the muni observed a one-night pratimā, like an unshakable mountain. As soon as he had ascended the kşapakaśreņi, brilliant omniscience arose from the destruction of ghātikarmas. The gods came and held the omniscience-festival and, when Himacūla saw that, terrified, he went to him (Kanakaśakti) for protection. Vajräyudha celebrated the sage's festival properly and, after hearing a sermon from him, went to his own city.
Initiation of Vajrāyudha (193-203) One day Lord Kşemankara, attended by gods, asuras, and kings by the crore, stopped there in a samavasaraña. Servants came and announced to Vajrayudha that the Master, Lord Jina Kșemankara, had stopped in a samavasarana. He gave them twelve and a half crores of gold and went with his retinue to Tirthankara Kșemankara. After he had circumambulated him three times and had bowed to him with devotion, he seated himself behind Sakra and listened to the sermon. -
At the end of the sermon Cakrin Vajrāyudha bowed to the Lord and said: "Master, I am afraid of the ocean of existence difficult to be crossed. Wait here to give me initiation, Lord, until I come, after establishing Sahasrāyudha in his sovereignty." The king, told by the Master,
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