Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This page describes Suvidhi’s congregation which is the eleventh 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 11: Suvidhi’s congregation
Two hundred thousand monks, one hundred and twenty thousand nuns, eighty-four hundred ascetics with clairvoyant knowledge, fifteen hundred who knew the pūrvas and the same number with mind-reading knowledge, seventy-five hundred who were omniscient, thirteen thousand who possessed the art of transformation, six thousand disputants, two hundred and twenty-nine thousand laymen, four hundred and seventy-two thousand laywomen formed the retinue of the Lord wandering for a lac of pūrvas less twenty-eight aṅgas and four months after his omniscience.