Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

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

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OMNISCIENCE OF MAHĀVIRA
Talked to by them to this effect, Keśin, abandoning devotion to Udayana, will ask, 'What is to be done?' and they will have him give poison. Mixing curd with poison Keśin will have it given to him by a herd-girl. What course is there of the dependent of another? A deity, seizing the poison, will say to the muni: The taking of curd is poisonous for you. Do not touch curd.' Then, curd being given up, the muni's disease will increase. For diseases spread, like a ghoul that has played a trick. He will take curd again to check the disease. Three times the deity will take away the poison.
One day from negligence the deity will not take away the poison and the muni will eat the curd with the poison. Knowing that his death was near from the waves of poison stealing consciousness away, the great sage will observe a fast. After he has fasted for thirty days, with concentrated meditation, omniscience having arisen, he will die and attain emancipation.
The goddess, when she has come again after Udayana has died and has learned that, will become angry in a way like the night at the end of the world. From anger she will fill Vitabhaya with sand and from that time she will make a rain of sand unceasingly. Then the statue consecrated by Kapila will be in the ground like a deposit, sir. The goddess, raining sand, will take away a sinless potter, who afforded refuge to Muni Udayana. After taking him to Sinapalli, she will found a place, named Kumbhakārakṛta, from his name."239
Abhaya bowed to the Supreme Lord and asked again, What is the future course of Abhici, son of Udayana? The Master explained: "When his father gives the kingdom to Keśin, Abhici, Prabhavati's son, will reflect: Even though I am here, a devoted son, fit for the kingdom, my father gave
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239 24. LIA, p. 302, takes Kumbhakārakṛta to be another name for Vitabhaya Bhera, but here it is evidently entirely different from Vitabhaya.