Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This page describes Ananta’s moksha (emancipation) which is the twentieth 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 20: Ananta’s mokṣa (emancipation)
Knowing that it was time for his emancipation, the Iyord went to Mt. Sammeta with seven thousand monks and began a fast. At the end of a month, on the fifth day of the bright half of Caitra, the moon being in Pauṣṇa, Lord Anantajit attained emancipation with the monks. The Indras came with the gods and held the nirvàṇa-festival of the Lord and his disciples. Anantajit lived for thirty lacs of years—seven and a half lacs as prince, fifteen lacs as king, and seven and a half lacs as mendicant. Nine sāgaropamas elapsed between the uirvāṇas of Vimala Svāmin and Atlanta Svāmin.