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

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________________ 289 Lord Jina in person. For the sight of him even one time is like a cow of plenty in a lucky dream.' With these reflections, he went with his wife to the city Khadgapura in the province Sutra 888 on the north bank of Sitodă in the West Videhas in the continent Dhātakikhaṇḍa and saw the Arhat Amitavahana. After bowing to the Blessed One, the king listened to an important sermon resembling a boat on the ocean of existence. When he had heard the sermon, a mass of water for the fire of pain, and had bowed to the Arhat, he went to his own city. As he was going above here there was a stumbling in his gait, like that of a boat in an ocean filled with beds of strong reeds. 'My gait has been hindered by someone.' To find out he cast down his eyes and saw me standing here. In a fit of anger he approached to lift me up and this wretch was seized by me with the left hand. He gave a harsh cry like an elephant seized by a lion and his wife and attendants came to me for protection. Then I released him and, after he had been released, he created various figures before me and gave this concert." Again Priyamitrā said, "My dear, what did he do in a former birth because of which this very great magnificence is his?" Megharatha said: "In the East Bharata of the half of Puskara there is a great city, Sanghapura by name. There was a son of a noble family, Rājyagupta, very poor, who always made his living by working for other people. He had a wife, Sankhikā, devoted to him and devoted religiously, and both of them worked in other people's houses. One day for the sake of fruit they went together to the big mountain Sanghagiri covered with various trees. Wandering over this for the wild fruit, they saw a muni, Sarvagupta, delivering a sermon. Approaching him seated in an assembly of Vidyadharas, they bowed to him with This name does not occur in the usual Jain cosmography. 888 221. 19 TENTH INCARNATION AS MEGHARATHA Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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