Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

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

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CHAPTER EIGHT
gone, she went to the upaśraya, frightened at the transgression of the time.
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Candana said to her, "Sadhvi, is such a thing fitting for you, well-born, that you stayed out at night alone?" Mṛgavati apologized again and again to Candana after these words, her omniscience manifested itself from the destruction of the destructive karmas.
While the head-man was sleeping, by the power of omniscience Mṛgāvati saw a serpent moving at Candana's side and she raised her arm from the ground. Candana, awakened, asked her, Why did you lift my arm?" Mṛgavati explained, "A big snake was moving here." Again Candana said: "Mṛgāvati, how did you see the snake in the impenetrable_darkness? I am astonished." The Blessed Mrgavati explained: "Head-nun, I knew by the eye of omniscience which has arisen." Shame on me scolding an omniscient," and the omniscience of Candanā, blaming herself unceasingly in this way, also manifested itself instantly.
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Now Gautama asked, "Lord, do future events become different spontaneously because the aerial cars of the Sun and Moon have come here?"
The Master explained: There are ten wonders: 182
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182 352. These wonders happen once in "infinite time." The attacks on the Arhat, the removal of the embryo, Camara's attack, the assembly of souls incapable of emancipation are described earlier in this parvan. The going of Kṛṣṇa to Aparakaňkā is narrated in 8.10, Vol. V. (There the city is called Amarakaňka throughout. Both forms are quoted in PH.). The worship of householders took place after the nirvāņa of Suvidhinatha (and after that of six following Arhats) and is described in 3.7; II, p. 335. The life of Malli, the only woman Tirthankara, is 6.6; Vol. IV. The beginning of the Hari-line is told in 6.7; IV, pp. 77, f. The "108 siddhas" is the only one of the wonders not definitely mentioned in the Trişaşti". The "wonder" is for 108 sadhus of the best bodily structure to attain emancipation at the same time. According to KSK this happened at the time of Rṣabha's death-the 108 being 99 sons of Rṣabha and 9 sons of Bharata. But in the Trişaşți° there is no mention of the 108 among the 10,000 sadhus that attained emancipation with Rşabha. See KS 119, KSK, p. 35.