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INITIATION, AND OMNISCIENCE OF SRI PĀRSVA
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Hastisena, then and there, and became a mendicant, nobleminded. Queen Vāmā and Prabhavati became afraid of worldly existence because of the Lord's sermon and adopted mendicancy which results in emancipation.
The Lord had ten gaṇadharas, Aryadatta and others. The Master taught them the three steps: permanence, origination, and perishing. From the three steps they all composed the twelve angas. To the intelligent teaching is like a drop of oil in water. The Lord delivered his sermon in the full first watch. In the second watch Aryadatta delivered a sermon. Then Sakra and the others bowed to the Supreme Lord and they all went to their respective places, recalling the Master's sermon. Sāsanadevatās (362-365)
Originating in that congregation, the Yakṣa Pārśva, with a tortoise for a vehicle, dark, elephant-faced, splendid with an umbrella of serpent-hoods, four-armed, holding an ichneumon and a serpent in his left hands, a citron and a serpent in his right hands, became the Lord's messenger-deity.
Likewise the goddess Padmavati, with a kurkuta-serpent for a vehicle, gold colored, carrying a lotus and a noose in her right hands, a fruit and a goad in her left hands, became the second messenger-deity of Lord Sri Pārśva. The Lord, his vicinity unceasingly presided over by the messenger-deities, wandered over the earth, attended by reverent gods and others.
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