Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra

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

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

Part 15: Ananta’s omniscience

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Now, when Jina Anantajit had wandered three years as an ordinary ascetic, he came to the grove named Sahasrāmravana. There, as the Lord was engaged in meditation under an aśoka, his ghāti-karmas broke like joints of saṃsāra. On the fourteenth day of the dark half of Ṛādha, the moon being in Revatī, the Lord’s omniscience arose from a two-day fast. In a divine samavasaraṇa the Lord delivered a sermon to fifty gaṇadharas, Yaśas, et cetera.

Last Updated: 30 November, 2018