Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

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

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CHAPTER ONE
At the end of the sermon, King Vikramadhana explained to him: "While Dhana was in her womb, his mother saw a mango tree in a dream. Some man explained to her, 'It will be planted nine times in a different place, each time with better and better fruit. Please tell us the meaning of the planting nine times. I knew the other fruit of the dream by the birth of the prince.
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Completely concentrated, employing right-knowledge, he asks mentally an omniscient somewhere at a distance. The omniscient knew the question from his wealth of omniscience and related the life of Ariṣṭanemi which consisted of nine births. The muni understood it by telepathy and clairvoyance and said:
He who is your son Dhana in this birth will experience nine better and better births. In the ninth birth he will be the twenty-second Arhat, Ariṣṭanemi, belonging to the Yadu family, here in Bharata.
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On hearing this speech of the muni, they all rejoiced exceedingly; and the nature of them all became tinged with belief 13 in the Jina's religion at that time. Vikrama bowed to him and went home with Dhana and the others; and the suri went elsewhere, engaged in the course of his itinerary. Dhana experienced pleasure of the senses with Dhanavati in sports suited to the season, like a god devoted to sense-objects.
One day he went to play at water-sports in the pleasure-pool with his wife Dhanavati who was like a co-wife of Śrī in beauty. There Dhanavati pointed out to her husband a muni falling in a faint under an aśoka, who was like the emotion of tranquillity embodied, overcome by heat, fatigue, and thirst, the buds of his palate and lips dried up, the ground sprinkled with blood from his cracked lotus-feet. Both quickly approached the muni and attended him and restored consciousness by cool applications. Dhana bowed to him when he had recovered and said: "I am entirely blessed now that I have found you like
13 108. A bhadraka has the slightest degree of right-belief.
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