Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra

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

This page describes Abhinandana’s congregation which is the seventeenth 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 17: Abhinandana’s congregation

Then the Master, endowed with the thirty-four supernatural powers, wandered in villages, mines, cities, etc. Three hundred thousand monks, six hundred and thirty thousand nuns, ninety-eight thousand endowed with clairvoyant knowledge, fifteen hundred who knew the pūrvas, eleven thousand, six hundred and fifty who had mindreading knowledge, fourteen thousand who were omniscient, nineteen thousand who had the art of transformation, eleven thousand disputants, two hundred and eighty-eight thousand laymen, five hundred and twenty-seven thousand laywomen were (the congregation) of the Lord of the World as he wandered over the earth.

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