Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This page describes Tenth incarnation as a Samanika which is the eighteenth part of chapter I of the English translation of the Adisvara-caritra, contained within the “Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra”: a massive Jain narrative relgious text composed by Hemacandra in the 12th century. Adisvara (or Rishabha) in jainism is the first Tirthankara (Jina) and one of the 63 illustrious beings or worthy persons.
Part 18: Tenth incarnation as a Sāmānika
The six became Śakrasāmānikas in the twelfth heaven named Acyuta. For such penance does not bear ordinary fruit. They fell after completing a life of twenty-two sāgaropamas.[1] For there is always falling until mokṣa is attained.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Ten crores of palyopamas make a sāgaropama.