Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 3

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

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CHAPTER ONE
practice penance to a high degree. That certainly goes along as a companion to the next world."
When he had so spoken, the king went home remorsefully. Viśvabhūti wandered as a muni with his guru. Engaged in fasts of two and three days, zealous in service to his guru, learning texts and interpretations, he gradually passed a very long time. Wandering alone by permission of his guru, observing pratimā, he began to wander in villages, mines, cities, et cetera.
One day, as the great sådhu Viśvabhūti wandered, observing numerous special vows, he went to the city Mathurā. Just at that time Viśākhanandin went there with his retinue to marry his paternal aunt's daughter, the daughter of the king of Mathură. Viśvabhūti, wandering to break his fast at the end of the month, came near Višākhanandin's camp. Viśākhanandin's men pointed him out as he went along, saying repeatedly, " There is Prince Viśvabhūti.” At the sight of him Višākhanandin's anger arose at once. Just then Viśvabhūti feil, knocked over by a cow. Visakhanandin laughed and said to Viśvabhūti, “What has become of that strength of yours which knocked off wood-apples ?" When he saw Visakhapandin, Viśvabhūti, angry, seized the cow by the horns and whirled it around like a bunch of straw. Then as he went away, Viśvabhūti thought in his heart, "He, evil-minded, was just now angry with me, though I am free from attachment," and he made a nidāna, “May I be very strong in my next birth from the power of this severe penance.” When his life of a crore of years was completed, Viśvabhūti died without confessing that 28 and became a god with a maximum life-term in Mahāśukra.
The parents of Acala and Triprstha (159–166) Now there is a city Potanapura with high city-gates, like the crown of the earth of the southern half of Bharata.
28 157. The nidāna. See II, n. 29.