Book Title: Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6
Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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________________ HERESY OF JAMĀLI, DEATH OF GOSALA 223 Gośāla did this." Gautama asked, "When he has fallen from Acyuta, Master, where will he be born and when will he attain emancipation?" The Master said: "In this very Jambudvipa in the zone Bharata there will be a large city Satadvāra in the Pundras near the Vindhya. There Gośāla's soul will become the son, named Mahāpadma, of King Sammuci and Bhadra. He will be a mahārāja and two chiefs of the Yakṣas, Pūrṇabhadra and Māṇibhadra, will command his army. His subjects will give him, the great depository of prosperity, another name, Devasena, originated by his virtues. Of him possessing wonderful splendor just like a cakrin, there will appear a white, four-tusked elephant like another Airāvaṇa. The people, delighted at the sight of him mounted on this, will give him another name, Vimalavahana. One day as a result of karma producing hostility to ascetics acquired in a former birth, evil designs against ascetics will develop in him to a high degree. He will injure munis, as soon as he has seen or heard of them, by abuse, beatings, bindings, burnings, and killings. The citizens, ministers, and others will say to him: 'Oppression of the wicked, protection of the good is suitable for kings. If you do not protect these innocent sadhus, Master, who live on alms, great ascetics, do not protect. But why oppress them? If some muni becomes angry from the beating of an innocent person, then he will consume you and also your subjects by his hot flash.' Told this by them, he will agree with their speech without feeling. One day, seated in his chariot, he will go to a garden for sport. He will see a muni, Sumangala, who has three kinds of knowledge, whose hot flash is perfected, practicing penance in the kayotsarga-posture. Angry without cause, averse to the sight of a sadhu, upsetting him by the front of the chariot, he will make the great sage fall. The muni will get up and will assume kayotsarga again; and the king will make him fall to the ground again in the same way. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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