Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This page describes Suparshva’s omniscience which is the seventh part of chapter V of the English translation of the Suparshvanatha-caritra, contained within the “Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra”: a massive Jain narrative relgious text composed by Hemacandra in the 12th century. Suparshvanatha in jainism is one of the 63 illustrious beings or worthy persons.
Part 7: Supārśva’s omniscience
In his wandering the Lord came again to Sahasrām-ravaṇa and stood there at the foot of a śirīṣa tree, engaged in pratimā accompanied by a two days’ fast. The Teacher of the World, occupied with the end of the second pure meditation, destroyed the destructive karmas, as if they were vital points of saṃsāra. Then on the sixth day of Phālguna, the moon standing in Viśākhā, Supārśva Svāmin’s omniscience arose.