Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This page describes Nandinipitri which is the fourteenth part of chapter VIII of the English translation of the Mahavira-caritra, contained within the “Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra”: a massive Jain narrative relgious text composed by Hemacandra in the 12th century. Mahavira in jainism is the twenty-fourth Tirthankara (Jina) and one of the 63 illustrious beings or worthy persons.
Part 14: Nandinīpitṛ
One day in his wandering the Blessed One went to the city Śrāvastī and stopped in the garden named Koṣṭhaka in it. There was a householder, Nandinīpitṛ, whose wealth was equal to Ānanda’s. Of him there was a wife, Aśvinī, like Aśvinī of the Moon. From paying homage to Śrī Mahāvīra he heard a sermon and, like Ānanda, took the lay vows and restrictions.