Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

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

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and Yaśodā with a festival equal to the birth-festival. King Siddhārtha and Queen Trišalā, seeing the bride and groom, considering themselves fortunate, rejoiced as if they had drunk nectar.
The Master, though indifferent, enjoyed sensual pleasure with Queen Yaśodā, the moon to his parents' eyes. In the course of time Queen Yaśodā bore the Lord a daughter, Priyadarśanā69 both in name and form. Jamāli, a prince of high family, wealthy, in the first bloom of youth, married Priyadarśanā when she was grown. ,
Initiation (156–199) In the twenty-eighth year from the Master's birth, his parents died from fasting and went to the heaven Acyuta. When the souls of Siddhārtha and Trisalā fall from Acyuta, they will attain emancipation in the country called West Videha.
When the parents' cremation had taken place and a day from then had passed, the Master said to Nandivardhana and his harem plunged in grief : “ Death is always near; life is always fleeting. When this day has come, grief is no remedy. It is only the practice of dharma with the support of fortitude that is fitting, but not grief, et cetera, suitable for a contemptible man, brother.”
Thus enlightened by the Master, Nandivardhana became composed and requested the Lord to adorn the ancestral throne. When Vira, afraid of existence, did not take possession of the ancestral kingdom, then Nandivardhana was made king by the persistent ministers. Mahāvīra, eager to take the long-desired mendicancy, took leave of his brother Nandivardhana. His voice choked with grief, Nandivardhana said: “ Today our parents are not forgotten, brother. Today all their people, like me, are filled with grief. Will you pour acid on my wound by your separation ?” : So from regard for his elder brother grieving, the Lord
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