Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra
by Helen M. Johnson | 1931 | 742,503 words
This page describes Nami’s shasanadevatas (messenger-deities) which is the tenth part of chapter XI of the English translation of the Jain Ramayana, contained within the “Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra”: a massive Jain narrative relgious text composed by Hemacandra in the 12th century. This Jain Ramayana contains the biographies of Rama, Lakshmana, Ravana, Naminatha, Harishena-cakravartin and Jaya-cakravartin: all included in the list of 63 illustrious beings or worthy persons.
Part 10: Nami’s śāsanadevatās (messenger-deities)
Originating in that congregation, the Yakṣa Bhṛkuṭi, three-eyed, four-faced, gold color, with a bull for a vehicle, with four right arms holding a citron, spear, and hammer and one in abhayada-position and with four left arms holding an ichneumon, axe, thunderbolt and rosary; and likewise the goddess Gāndhārī, fair-bodied, with a haṃsa for a vehicle, adorned with two right arms holding a sword and in varada-position and with two left ones both holding citrons, became the messenger deities of Lord Nami.
With them always near, the Lord wandered over the earth for twenty-five hundred years less nine months.