Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

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

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CHAPTER NINE
seed of enlightenment and followed Gautama.
When he saw the Lord, angry from the hostility in the births as a lion, et cetera, he said to Gautama,“ Who is this before us, Blessed One?” Gautama said, “This is the Lord Jina, my teacher in religion,” and he said, “ If he is your guru, then I have no business with you. Enough of your initiation.” With these words he laid aside the broom, et cetera, went up, his own district, and resumed the plough, et cetera.
Gautama bowed to the Master and asked: “Blessed One, this is a very strange thing to me—that he is hostile to you, the joy of the people. At the mere sight of you, he renounced the vow taken of his own accord. What is the reason of this, Lord? Before, he was friendly to me, but as soon as it was explained that you were my guru, he became hostile to you and to me also, Lord.”
The Master explained: “ He was the lion that was torn to pieces by me as Triprştha. Twitching from anger, he was calmed with gentle words by you, my charioteer. From that time he became hostile to me but, on the contrary, friendly to you. Therefore I sent you, Gautama, for the sake of the seed of his enlightenment.”
Story of Prasannacandra (21-50) After this explanation, the Blessed One went to the city Potana and stopped outside it in the garden Manorama. The Lord of Potana, Prasannacandra, came to pay homage to the Lord Jina and heard a sermon that was destructive of delusion. Enlightened by the Master's sermon, afraid of existence, the king installed his son, though a child, on the throne and took the vow. Wandering with the Master, practicing severe penance, the royal sage became learned in the texts and interpretations in course of time.
One day the Blessed Vira, attended by this sādhu and other sādhus, went in his wandering to Rājagțha. Eager to see the Lord of the World, Sreņika, surrounded by his