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 [18 of 50]
18. At the beginning of the first settlement, Agni's quarter (the south-east) became resplendent through the divine wives of thy Kevalam, as if Agni had come for worship.[1]
[continuation … → Vers 19… https://www.om-arham.org/blog/view/18809/dhanapalas-%25E1%25B9%259Bishabhapancasika-a-collection-of-50-verses-on-the-1st-of-the-24-seers]
[1] Comm.: Samavasaraṇa-sthiti-viśesham āha || Kevalotpatter anantaraṃ yat prathamaṃ samavasaraṇaṃ tad eva hunting-utsava-hetutvān mahas tatra, yad vā prathama-samavasaraṇasya mukhe prārambhe. (According to this, the commentary also seems to know the reading mahe instead of muhe.) Āgneyī (Cod. āgnīya) dik kevalāyāḥ (sic. In the text is probably tuha kevali and then translate: At your first samavasaraṇa, O Kevalin) sura-vadhūbhiḥ deha-prabhābhiḥ kṛito dyoto yasyāḥ tasyāṃ parshat-trayāṃ bhavishyati, ādyāyāṃ sādhavo ‘ntarā vaimānikyo ‘nte sādhvyaḥ. Likewise Mahāpurushacar. Vidiśi (the southeast, cf. Hem. Abhidh. 169 schol.: pūrvā dig – east – aindri, tato vidig – southeast - āgneyī) prathamā munīnāṃ parishat, pṛishṭhe vaimānikā-devīnāṃ, tāsāṃ paścāt sadhvināṃ parishat.
Ṛishabha's first Samavasaraṇa is described in detail in Merutuṅga's Mahāpurushacaritram p. 8 b ff. Cf. Śobh.st. v. 94. Śatr.-uddhāra relates as follows (2, 76.77):
Pure Purimatālākhye kānane Śakaṭānane |
indraih samavasaraṇaṃ vyadhāyi trijagat-prabhoḥ ||
Sarva-digbhyo narā nāryo deva devyaś approx. servataḥ |
nijarddhyā spardhamānās te mithas tatrābhyupāyayuḥ |
