Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This page describes Shitala’s omniscience which is the eighth part of chapter VIII of the English translation of the Shitalanatha-caritra, contained within the “Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra”: a massive Jain narrative relgious text composed by Hemacandra in the 12th century. Shitalanatha in jainism is one of the 63 illustrious beings or worthy persons.
Part 8: Śītala’s omniscience
The Teacher of the World went again to Sahasrām-ravaṇa and stood there in pratimā beneath a wavy-leafed fig tree. After he had mounted the second pure meditation, like a soldier a rampart, the Teacher of the World destroyed the ghātikarmas like enemies. On the fourteenth day of the black half of Pauṣa, when the moon was in Pūrvāṣāḍhā, Śītala Svāmin’s omniscience arose.