Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This page describes Death of Dviprishtha which is the twenty-fourth part of chapter II of the English translation of the Vasupujya-caritra, contained within the “Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra”: a massive Jain narrative relgious text composed by Hemacandra in the 12th century. Vasupujya in jainism is one of the 63 illustrious beings or worthy persons.
Part 24: Death of Dvipṛṣṭha
The Vāsudeva Dvipṛṣṭha, who had large undertakings and possessions, fearless as a lion, negligent like a god, enjoying pleasures at will, completed his life and went to the sixth hell, Tamaḥprabhā, after death. The length of Dvipṛṣṭha’s life was as follows: a lac—less one-fourth—of years as prince, the same as governor, one hundred years in the expedition of conquest, seventy lacs, forty-nine thousand and nine hundred in the kingdom (as ardhacakrin).[1]
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The total is 72 lacs.