Dhanapāla's Ṛishabhapañcāśikā (a collection of 50 verses on the 1st of the 24 Seers)
Dhanapāla's Ṛishabhapañcāśikā (a collection of 50 verses on the 1st of the 24 Seers) transl. Joh. Klatt ZdMG 33 (1879)
Ṛishabhapañcāśikā [8 of 50]
8. Where you have been consecrated (at birth) and where you have attained happiness, salvation and bliss (Nirvāṇa), these two Ashṭāpada mountains (one made of gold, the other provided with 8 steps)[1] are the crowns of the mountain race.[2]
[continuation … → Vers 9… https://www.om-arham.org/blog/view/18799/dhanapalas-%25E1%25B9%259Bishabhapancasika-a-collection-of-50-verses-on-the-1st-of-the-24-seers]
[1] The 8 steps on the Aṣṭāpada (aṣṭā = eight; pada = step, staircase) symbolize the 8 types of karmas that one sheds. The 13th step of purity of soul out of 14 has shed 7 types of karmas (except ayū, age, life span). Then one has attained Sayogakevalī, that is, with perfect mind-reading knowledge, etc.
[2]According to comm., one of the Ashṭāpada mountains is Meru, so called because it is made of gold (ashṭāpada also means gold), the other is a gambling mountain (krīḍāśaila) near Ayodhyā. Śatruṃjayamāhātmyollekha, a prose adaptation of the Śatruṃjayamāhātmya, (ms. or. fol. 699 gift from Bühler to the K. Bibl.) tells on p. 53 a in detail the consecration after the birth Meru-mūrdhni Pandukan Atipāṇḍukambalākhyāyāṃ śilāyām. Śatr.-uddhāra devotes only one verse to the whole matter (2, s):
Saudharmādyāś catuḥshashṭiḥ
Surendrah saparicchadāḥ |
Jina- janmotsavaṃ cakrur
gatva Svarnagiriṃ (di Meru) mudā ||
— Regarding the other mountain near Ayodbyā, for the glorification of which there is Ashtāpada-stavana, see Śatr.-ullekha p. 124 b:
Evaṃ caturvidhaṃ saṃghaṃ sthāpayitvā, ekaṃ pūrvalakshaṃ
Vratam prapālya svakīya-nirvāṇa-samayaṃ jñātvā ‘shṭāpada-parvataṃ prāpa etc.
