Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This is the English translation of the Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Charita (literally “The lives of the sixty-three illustrious People”), a Sanskrit epic poem written by Hemachandra in the twelfth century. The work relates the history and legends of important figures in the Jain faith. These 63 persons include: the twenty four tirthankaras , the t...
Invocation
Om! Homage to holy Śāntinātha, all of whose impurity has been extinguished, the sixteenth Arhat and the fifth cakrin.
I shall celebrate his life, which was extremely pure, the only sun for the destruction of the intense darkness of delusion.