On our left is a big castle like stone wall connected to Rampol. Many workers and men carrying Doli’s are waiting for their customers to return after worshiping Lord Adinath. It takes time so the waiters are either gossiping or taking rest under the shade of trees. The wind touching those trees seems blowing windpipe and tuning sweet music. Continue reading “Tunk of Sheth Motishah” »
Tunk of Sheth Motishah
Sixth Incarnation as Vajrajangha – Part 2
Just then Vajrajangha came from the city Lohargala, saw the events painted in the picture, and swooned. Fanned with fans, sprinkled with water, he got up. Recollection of his former birth took place, as if he had just come from heaven. Questioned by Pandita, “Why did you swoon, O Prince, when you saw this painting?” Vajrajangha said: “This painting is the life of my wife and myself in a former birth, madam. When I saw it, I fainted. This is the holy heaven Isana, and this the palace Sriprabha. Here am I named Lalitanga, and that is my wife, Svayamprabha. Here in Dhatakikhanda, having descended in Nandigrama, she, named Nirnamika, was born in the house of a poor man. Continue reading “Sixth Incarnation as Vajrajangha – Part 2” »
Renunciation of enjoyments
उविच्च भोगा पुरिसं चयन्ति,
दुमं जहा खीणफलं व पक्खी
दुमं जहा खीणफलं व पक्खी
Like birds desert the tree bereft of fruits, enjoyments abandon the man of depleted virtues
Sixth Incarnation as Vajrajangha – Part 1
Then he was born as the son of King Suvarnajangha and Queen Laksmi in Jambudvipa,, in the East Videhas, near the Ocean on the north bank of the big river Sita, in the province Puskalavati, in the city Lohargala. Then with delight blossoming forth, on an auspicious day the happy parents gave him the name of Vajrajangha. In a short time Svayamprabha, afflicted by grief, devoted to works of Dharma, also fell like Lalitanga. In this same province in the city Pundarikini, she became the daughter of the Cakrin Vajrasena and his wife Gunavati. She was endowed with beauty surpassing all the world, and was named Srimati by her parents. Cared for by nurses like a creeper by women-gardeners, she grew up gradually, her body delicate and her hands like shining blossoms. As a jewel adorns a gold ring, youth adorned her making the sky blossom, as it were, with her glossy beauty. Continue reading “Sixth Incarnation as Vajrajangha – Part 1” »
Vītarāga…! Tōrā pāya śaraṇaṁ
Śrī Suparshvanath Jina Stavan
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Niśadina jōvuṁ vāṭaḍī
Niśadina jōvuṁ vāṭaḍī
ghara āvō rē ḍhōlā,
Muja sarikhī tuja lākha hai
mērē tū hī mamōlā.
…Niśadina.1
Manaḍuṁ hāthana āvē hō, padma prabha!
Shri Padmaprabhu Jina Stavan
Rāga: Manaḍuṁ kima hi na bājē hō kunthujina…
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