Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

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

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CHAPTER THREE Lord: “For twelve years there will be a succession of attacks: I wish to become your attendant and ward then off.” When the Blessed One had completed his meditation, he said to Indra: “ The Arhats have never required the assistance of others. This certainly never has been, is not, and never will be: that the Arhats attain omniscience from the assistance of others. The Lord Jinas attain omniscience only by their own power; by their own power alone they attain emancipation.”
Maghavan instructed Siddhārtha, the son of the Lord's maternal aunt, who then was a god of the Vyantaras because of penance based on wrong belief, “ You, as the Master's attendant, must prevent anyone who makes an attack that would result in the master's death.” With these instructions, Hari departed. Siddhārtha acknowledged the order and remained
The Master went to the hamlet Kollāka to break his two-day fast. There in the house of a Brāhman, named Bahula, the Lord broke his fast with rice pudding mixed with sugar, et cetera. The five divine things, the stream of treasure, et cetera, produced by hosts of gods, appeared in the Brāhman's house.
Then the Teacher of the World, whose soul-color was as white as the moon, difficult to look at from the brilliance of penance like the sun; bold as an elephant; immovable as Sumeru; enduring the touch of all like the earth; deep as the ocean; fearless as a lion; difficult for wrong-believers to look at like a fire with good sacrifices; solitary as the horn of a rhinoceros; strong as a great bull; his senses protected, like a tortoise; his gaze directed on one object like a serpent; spotless as a conch; his color like gold; free as a bird; his course unstumbling like a soul;75 vigilant as a bhāraņda;76 unsupported like the sky; his body free from unguents like a lotus-leaf from slime; his mind indifferent to friend or foe, straw or women, gold or a stone, a gem or a clod, this world or the
75 41. I. e., a soul is unhindered in its movements.
76 42. A fabulous bird. It has 3 legs and 2 faces, and is ever vigilant. Mahāvira is vigilant from lack of sleep, etc. KS 118; KSK p. 112 a.