Gaina sutras

SR No.: 020334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Clarendon Perss
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 385
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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KALPA SÚTRA.
favourite, (about this) was threefold, &c. (repeat SS 3-95 after making the necessary substitutions, and omitting what exclusively applies to Mahavira, all down to) comfortably carried her unborn child. (151)
In that period, in that age the Arhat Pârsva, the people's favourite 1_after the lapse of nine months and seven and a half days, in the second month of winter, in the third fortnight, the dark (fortnight) of Paushya, on its tenth day, in the middle of the night when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Visâkhâ—(Vâmâ), perfectly healthy herself, gave birth to a perfectly healthy boy. (152)
In that night in which the Arhat Pârsva, the people's favourite, was born, &c. (repeat $$ 97-107 with the necessary alterations, all down to) therefore shall the name of our boy be Pârsva 2 (153, 154)
The Arhat Pârsva, the people's favourite, clever, with the aspirations of a clever man, of great beauty, controlling his senses, lucky, and modest, lived thirty years as a householder. Then the Laukântika gods, following the established custom, addressed him with these kind, pleasing, &c., sweet, and soft words : (155)
Victory, victory to thee, gladdener of the world! (see § 111, down to) Thus they raised the shout of victory. (156) Before the Arhat Pârsva, the people's favourite, had adopted the life of a householder, &c. (see § 112, down to) indigent persons.
1 As regards the construction of this passage compare § 96, note I.
This name was given him because before his birth his mother, lying on her couch, saw in the dark a black serpent crawling about. This is the account given by the commentator, who forgets to tell us how it comes to bear on the name Pârsva.