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.

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.

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