Part 4: Birth of Vāsupūjya

Now in the heaven Prāṇata, the jīva of King Padmottara, absorbed in pleasure, passed his life of maximum length. On the ninth day of the white half of Jyeṣṭha, the moon being in Śatabhiṣaj, the jīva fell from Prāṇata, and entered Jayā’s womb. Then Queen Jayā, sleeping comfortably, saw the fourteen dreams which indicate the birth of a Tīrthakṛt. The Lady Jayā supported the best of embryos, like a row of clouds the moon, like a mountain-cave a lion. At the right time, on the fourteenth day of the dark half of Phālguna (the moon being) in the constellation Vāruṇa,^[1]  she bore a son, red color, marked with a buffalo.