Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra

by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words

This page describes Abhinandana’s omniscience which is the thirteenth part of chapter II of the English translation of the Abhinandana-caritra, contained within the “Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra”: a massive Jain narrative relgious text composed by Hemacandra in the 12th century. Abhinandana in jainism is one of the 63 illustrious beings or worthy persons.

Part 13: Abhinandana’s omniscience

One day as he wandered the Lord went to Sahasrāmravaṇa and stood under a priyāla-tree, after observing a two days’ fast. The destruction of the destructive-karmas taking place at the end of the second pure meditation, on the fourteenth of the bright half of Pauṣa, the moon being in conjunction with Abhīci, the Lord’s spotless omniscience appeared, a great remedy for warding off pain even of the hell-inhabitants.

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