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 [43 of 50]
43. After he has stayed for one hour inside the unexpectedly arrived fish, he has lived continuously for 66 ayara in Apratishṭhāna (“Bottomless”, name of a hell),[1]
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[1] Comm. V. 43: He deva! Apareshāṃ kā kathā? mayaiva saptanaraka-madhya-varti-narakāvāse ‘pratishṭhānābhidhe shaṭ-shashṭi sāgaropamāni (name of a great period of time, see Bhag. I, 427; the thereby explained ayara is probably acara "immobile") ushitaṃ (hereby vatthuṃ, and vasieṇaṃ is also replaced by ushitena explained. I interpret vatthuṃ as a gerund (Hem. II, 146, Hāla p. 66), where the subject vasieṇaṃ is in the instr. and the next verse forms the main clause. I have therefore also put the two verses together spatially). Mayā kiṃ-vidhena? acintitāgato yo matsya-bhavas tasyāntar madhye muhurta matram kalam ushitena (anto-muhutta can also be understood as one word; it is the name of a small period of time, see Bhag. in several places)... Atra approx. matsya-sabdaḥ sāmānya-vācy api tandula-matsya-vācī.
