Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 5

SR No.: 001005
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1962
Total Pages: 507
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 11 MB

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BALADEVA'S GOING TO HEAVEN
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disputation, one lac and sixty-nine thousand laymen, three lacs and thirty-nine thousand laymen (in his retinue).
Attended by such à retinue, accompanied by gods, asuras, and kings, knowing that it was time for his emancipation, the Lord went to Raivataka. There in a samavasarana made by the Indras, the Master delivered his last sermon with a desire for benefit to everyone. Enlightened by that sermon, some there became mendicants, some adopted laymanship, and others à disposition toward right-belief. Then the Lord commenced a padapopagama fast for a month with five hundred and thirty-six sadhus. On the eighth of the white half of Suci (Aṣāḍha), (the moon being) in Tvāṣṭra in the evening, Nemi, engaged in sailesi 304 meditation, attained emancipation together with the munis.
The princes, Pradyumna, Śāmba, and others also attained emancipation; and Kṛṣṇa's eight chief-queens and the Blessed One's brothers. Many other sadhus and other sādhvis, Rājimati, et cetera went to the abode from which there is no return. Four hundred years as householder, one year as an ordinary sadhu, five hundred years as an omniscient-this was the life of Rathanemi. Such was Rajimati's duration of life also, rich in penance, divided into maidenhood, ordinary asceticism, and omniscience. Šiva and Samudravijaya went to the heaven Mahendra and the other Daśārhas became magnificent gods.
Siva's son had a life of one thousand years-three hundred years as prince, seven hundred years as ordinary ascetic and omniscient. Śri Nemi's emancipation took place when five hundred thousand years had passed since Śrī Nami Jina's nirvāṇa.
At Sakra's command Vaisravana created the Lord's bier and Sakra himself put the body on it, after worshipping it properly. The gods made the funeral pyre of gośirsa-sandal, et cetera as fuel in the south-west on a surface of jeweled slabs.
304 109. See I, n. 8.
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