Dhanapāla's Ṛishabhapañcāśikā (a collection of 50 verses on the 1st of the 24 Seers)

    Alexander Zeugin

    Dhanapāla's Ṛishabhapañcāśikā (a collection of 50 verses on the 1st of the 24 Seers) transl. Joh. Klatt ZdMG 33 (1879)

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    Ṛishabhapañcāśikā [5 of 50]

     

    5. All the beauty of the heaven of the gods Sarvārtha[1] had vanished when you, O Lord, prepared to descend to the house of the patriarch Nābhi[2].[3]

     

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    [1] Sarvārtha siddha: The birth of ascetics who are possessed of imperfect knowledge (one not omniscient - 1-3 out of 5 knowledges are right or wrong; 4th or second highest knowledge is manaḥparyāya-jñāna/mind-reading knowledge with at least 1 supernatural power; occurs in the 12th stage of 14 Guṇasthānas of spiritual purity; 5th or highest knowledge – kevala-jñāna attained in the 13th stage of spiritual purity SAYOGAKEVALĪ-Guṇasthāna). Their birth at the lowest, and the birth of a lay-man having perfect faith in religion, take place in Saudharma dēva-loka. [See ŚRAMAṆA BHAGAVĀN MAHĀVĪRA [80] HIS LIVE AND TEACHING Volume I CHAPTER V Classification of Celestial Being [16 of 18] verse 11

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    Sanskṛit: sarvārtha = suitable for every purpose, regarding or minding everything, all things or objects, all matters, all manner of things. AΩ

    [2] Navel/starting point/musk/father of Ṛṣbha.

    [3]Comm. says of this and the following verse: Cyavanakalyāṇakam uddiśya gāthā-dvayam āha. In the Śatruṃjaya-māhātmyoddhāra (Ms. or. fol. 641, gift from Bühler to the Royal Library in Berlin), an extract which already tells Ṛishabha's life story in sarga 2, it says sarga 2, v. 4:

    Nabheh kulakṛitaḥ patnya Marudevyā jagad-guruḥ |

    kukshav avatar ctyutvā svāmī Sarvārthasiddhitaḥ ||

    Sarvārthasiddhi or, as here, Sarvārtha is the name of the heaven in which Ṛishabha dwelt before he was born as the son of Nābhi. Cf. Wilson, Mackenzie Collection I, 145 and Śatr. 3, 7. 8.

    a. laṭṭhattaṇa translates Kom. with lashṭatva, which word does not occur in Sanskrit. The meaning of laṭṭha is "lovely", see Bühler Pāiya °, also KS in several places.

    c. Kulakara is the name given to the seven ancestors of Ṛishabha from Vimalavāhana up to Nābhi, Rishabha's father; this is also the name of Rishabha himself.