Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This page describes Suparshva’s moksha (emancipation) which is the twelfth 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 12: Supārśva’s mokṣa (emancipation)
When a lac of pūrvas less twenty aṅgas and nine months had elapsed after the time of his omniscience, the Master went to Mt. Sammeta. There the Master of the World, attended by gods and asuras, together with five hundred munis began a fast. At the end of a month, on the seventh day of the black half of Phālguna, the moon being in Mūla, the Master and the munis went to an eternal abode.
Śrī Supārśva passed five lacs of pūrvas as prince; fourteen lacs of pūrvas and twenty pūrvāṅgas in governing the earth; and a lac of pūrvas less twenty pūrvāṅgas in the vow. So his age was twenty lacs of pūrvas. Supārśva Svāmin’s nirvāṇa was nine thousand crores of sāgaropamas after Śrī Padmaprabha’s nirvāṇa.
The Indras, Acyuta, etc., celebrated a great emancipation-festival accompanied by the funeral rites of the Master and the munis.