Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

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

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CHAPTER TWO place elsewhere in a great family Arhats who have fallen into a low family from the power of karma. What king and queen of a great family are there now in Bhārata, to whom the Master can be transferred, like a bee from a jasmine to a lotus ?
Here in Bharata there is a well-known city named Ksatriyakundagrāma, which resembles my city, the ornament of the earth, the place of many shrines, the sole support of dharma, unstained by sins, purified by sādhus. That same city, free from the vices—hunting, wine-drinking, et cetera, is the means of purification of Bharatakṣetra, like a holy place of the earth. The king there is Siddhārtha of the Jñāta-line, a descendant of Ikşvāku, who always considered himself to have his purpose accomplished (siddhārtha) by dharma alone. Knowing the Principles—soul, non-soul, et cetera, a traveler on the road of propriety, he has placed his subjects on the road, devoted to their interests like a father.
He is a kinsman for the rescue of people who are poor, without a lord, et cetera; the refuge of those seeking a refuge, the crest-jewel of the warriors. He has a chief-queen, named Trišalā, the best of wives, the abode of merit, the embodiment of praise-worthy qualities. She, spotless by nature, now purifies the earth by her various qualities like the Mandākini by its waves. Unspotted by deceit which is the accompaniment of a woman-birth, straightforward by nature, she is a goddess on earth whose name is pronounced auspiciously. Just now she is pregnant. I must make quickly a change by the transfer of her embryo and that of Devānandā.”
After these reflections, Satamakha summoned at once General Naigameşin and instructed him to act accordingly. Naigameşin carried out carefully his Master's instructions regarding the exchange of the embryos of Devānanda and Trišalā. Devānandā the Brāhmaṇi, asleep, saw the fourteen great dreams, which she had seen before, issuing from her mouth. She arose, beating her breast, weak, sick from fever. Saying, “ Some one has taken away my embryo," she wept for a long time.