Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

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

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PREVIOUS BIRTHS
dharma;38 knowing completely the eleven angas; practicing twelvefold penance;39 with a liking for the twelve pratimas;40 enduring a series of trials hard to endure;41 indifferent to everything, Muni Nandana practiced penance for a lac of years. Having much penance by means of the twenty sthanas42 devotion to the Arhats, et cetera, he acquired the body-making karma of a Tirthakṛt, which is very difficult to acquire. Having practiced stainless asceticism even from the beginning, at the end of his life, he made a propitiatory declaration:43
38 227. Yatidharma: the 10 duties of monks: kṣanti (forbearance); mārdava (humility); ärjava (sincerity); mukti or nirlobhată (freedom from greed); tapas (austerities); samyama (control-ahinsä, avoidance of injury to anything living); satya (truthfulness); śauca (=asteya-non-stealing); akiñcanya (=aparigrahata, poverty); brahmacarya (chastity). I, n. 38; Sam. 10 with slightly different terminology.
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39 227. Tapas. The 12 are 6 inner and 6 outer. The 6 outer are: anasana (fasting); aunodarya (partial fasting); vṛtteh sankṣepana (limitation of food); rasatyaga (giving up choice food); anukleśa (bodily austerities); līnatā (avoidance of all useless motion). The 6 inner are: prayaścitta (confession and penance); vaiyavṛtta (service to others); svadhyaya (study of sacred texts); vinaya (reverence); vyutsarga (indifference to the body); śubhadhyana (good meditation). Sam 6; I, p. 27.
40 227. The 12 pratimas of sädhus, which are sometimes confused with the 11 pratimas of laymen, are a series of fasts. They are described in detail in Sam. 12. The Pañcāśakagrantha also deals with them.
41 228. The 22 parişaha: kṣudha (hunger); trṣa (thirst); śīta (cold); uşņa (heat); danśa (stinging insects); acelaka (nudity); arati (discontent); stri (women); carya (wandering); naiṣedhiki (place for meditation; must sit alone in deserted place); śayya (lodging); äkrośa (abuse); vadha (injury); yacana (begging); alabha (failure in begging); roga (illness); tṛṇasparśa (injury from thorns, etc.); mala (personal uncleanliness); satkāra (kind treatment; should not be influenced by it); prajñā (knowledge, obscure); ajnāna (ignorance); samyaktva (right-belief-doubt). Uttar.2; Sam. 22.
42 229. The sthānas (ka) are 20 practices which produce karma that results in a birth as a Tirthankara. For a full account see I, pp. 80 ff. See also Ava. 176-8, p. 161; Pravac. 310-19, pp. 82 f.
43 230. Aradhana. Though there are many references to an ārādhanā in the Trişaşti the following is the best example of one.