Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

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

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CHAPTER NINE
my voice." She paid homage to the statues, her head resting on the ground, with her mind permeated with devotion, seeing them as if before her eyes.
He said to Sulasã again: "You alone are virtuous, about whom the Master himself asked news today by my lips." Delighted at hearing that speech, she paid homage to the Lord and, the hair on her body erect from joy, recited a hymn of praise in a clear voice.
With the intention of testing her again, he said to her cleverly: Brahma and others descended here and expounded dharma. The townspeople have gone to pay homage to them and have listened to dharma from them. Why have you not gone even from curiosity, Sulasă?"
Sulasă said: Why do you speak so, though knowing different, illustrious sir? What kind of ascetics are Brahmā and others, who have weapons to kill and wives to serve? What dharma do they teach when they themselves are deeply engaged in wrong-doing? Who can endure seeing them, who has seen the Blessed Mahavira, the friend of the world, and has adopted his dharma?"
"Well said! Well said!
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saying, Ambada, rejoicing, went to his house. Sulasã always carried in her heart the dharma of the Arhats which is absolutely beyond criticism.
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