Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6

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

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CHAPTER THREE heavy perfume; a herd of cattle eager to worship; a lotus-pond filled with lotuses; a sea which he swam across; a sun sending up rays of light; Mount Mānuşottara surrounded by his own entrails; and Meru's peak surmounted by himself.
After he had seen these ten visions the Teacher of the Three Worlds awoke and the sun rose, as if wishing to pay homage to the Lord. Then all the people came, Indraśarman and Utpala also. When they saw that the Lord was uninjured and had been worshipped, they rejoiced. Amazed, they worshipped the Lord with flowers, et cetera and gave a lion's roar like victorious heroes. They, the givers of the lion's roar, said to each other, “By good fortune now at last the revered sādhu has appeased the Vyantara.” After learning all the facts, Utpala paid homage to the Blessed One and sat down at his lotus-feet like an insignificant disciple. At the end of kāyotsarga, Utpala bowed again to the Lord, knowing the Lord's visions from the power of (clairvoyant) knowledge, and said: . “Master, you yourself know the fruit of the ten auspicious visions that you saw at the end of the night. Yet from devotion I shall recite it. The tall piśāca who was killed means that you will destroy delusion; the white cuckoo means that you will reach pure meditation, Lord; the spotted cuckoo that you will teach the twelve angas; the herd of cattle that you will have a fourfold congregation; then the lotus-pond means an assembly of gods worshipping; the ocean that you swam across means that you will cross (the ocean of) existence; the sun that your omniscience will arise; the mountain encircled by entrails that you will have glory with power; you mounted on the peak of Meru means that you will teach ethics, seated on a lion-throne. Indeed, I do not know the fruit of the two garlands."
The Blessed One told him the fruit of the two garlands: “I shall teach twofold ethics to householders and monks.”
Then Utpala bowed to the Lord of the World and went to his own place; and the others also, their minds excited by astonishment and joy, went away.