Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This page describes Harishena’s moksha (emancipation) which is the sixth part of chapter XII of the English translation of the Jain Ramayana, contained within the “Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra”: a massive Jain narrative relgious text composed by Hemacandra in the 12th century. This Jain Ramayana contains the biographies of Rama, Lakshmana, Ravana, Naminatha, Harishena-cakravartin and Jaya-cakravartin: all included in the list of 63 illustrious beings or worthy persons.
Part 6: Hariṣeṇa’s mokṣa (emancipation)
One day, disgusted with existence, he dismissed the kingdom with ease and became a mendicant, eager for the festival of attainment of emancipation. As prince, Hariṣeṇa passed three hundred and twenty-five years, as governor of a province the same, one hundred and fifty years in the expedition of conquest, eighty-eight hundred and fifty as cakrabhṛt, and three hundred and fifty in the vow. Having kept severe vows completely, when he was ten thousand years old, his destructive karmas having been destroyed, his omniscience having appeared, Hariṣeṇa went to the abode of continual bliss.