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LIVES OF THE GINAS.
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LIFE OF RISHABHA.
In that period, in that age lived the Arhat Rishabha, the Kosalian!, four important moments of whose life happened when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Uttarâshâdha; the fifth, when in conjunction with Abhigit : (204) in Uttarashâdhâ he descended from heaven, &c. (all down to) in Abhigit he obtain..d final liberation. (205)
In that period, in that age, in the fourth month of summer, in the seventh fortnight, the dark (fortnight) of Ashâdha on its fourth day, the Arhat Rishabha, the Kose ian, descended from the great Vimâna called Sarvârthasiddha, where he had lived for thirty-three Sâgaropamas, here on the continent Gambûdvipa, in Bharatavarsha, in Ikshvâkubhūmi, and in the middle of the night, &c., he took the form of an embryo in the womb of Marudevî, wife of the patriarch? Nâbhi. (206)
The knowledge of the Arhat Rishabha about this, &c. (all as in the case of Mahâvîra, but note the following differences: the first dream is a bull 'coming forward with his face,' the other (mothers of Tirthakaras see first) an elephant. She (Marudevi) relates them to Nâbhi, the patriarch; there
Kosaliya=Kausalika. He is thus called because he was born in Kosalâ or Ayodhyâ.
Kulakara; these Kulakaras were the first kings and founders of families at the time when the rest of mankind were Yugalins.' The first Kulakara was Vimalavâhana; the seventh and last of the line Nâbhi,
