Part 4: Padmaprabha’s birth

Now, the soul of King Aparājita completed a life of thirty-one sāgaras in Graiveyaka. On the sixth day of the black half of Māgha, the moon being in conjunction with Citrā, he fell and descended into the womb of Rady Susīmā. Then Queen Susīmā saw fourteen great dreams indicating the birth of a Tīrthakṛt entering her mouth. As the embryo gradually increased in size the Queen had a pregnancy-whim for a couch of lotuses; and it was instantly gratified by goddesses. After nine months, seven and a half days, on the twelfth day of the black half of Kārtika, the moon being in Citrā, the planets suddenly going to exaltation by retrograde and accelerating motions, the Queen bore a son, red lotus-color, marked by a red lotus.^[1]