Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra

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

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

Part 3: Suvidhi’s birth

And now, the jīva of King Mahāpadma, living in Vaijayanta, completed his life of thirty-three sāgaras. Falling, he descended into Queen Rāmā’s womb on the ninth day of the black half of Phālguna, when the moon was in conjunction with Mūla. Then the Queen saw the fourteen great dreams, elephant, etc., indicating the birth of a Tīrthaṅkara, enter her mouth. The Queen bore her embryo, the source of support to the world, like the river Himādrijā (Gaṅgā) a young elephant playing in it. When the moon was in Mūla, on the fifth day of the black half of Mārgaśīrṣa, she bore a jewel of a son, white, marked with a makara.

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