In that period, in that age, on the thirteenth day of the third month of the rainy season, in the fifth fortnight, the dark (fortnight) of Asvina, after the lapse of eighty-two days, on the eighty-third day current (since his conception), the embryo of the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira was, on the command of Sakra, safely removed by Harinegamesi from the womb of the Brahmani Devananda to that of the Kshatriyani Trisala , in the middle of the night, when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Uttaraphalguni. (30)

End of the Second Lecture.

Footnotes

^218:1 Cf. Akaranga Sutra II, 15, section 1.

^218:2 Vakana. These vakanas are the parts into which the Kalpa Sutra is generally divided by some commentators. I have adopted the distribution of Samayasundara.

^218:3 A koti of kotis or 100,000,000,000,000.

^219:1 Cf. Akaranga Sutra II, 15, section 2.

^219:2 Cf. Akaranga Sutra II, 15, section 3.

^219:3 Add in the text asambhamtae after avilambiyae.

^221:1 That is, having reached his eighth year.

^221:2 Purana.

^221:3 Dictionary.

^221:4 According to the commentators, works which treat of the aidamparya of the Vedas.

^221:5 The Sankhya philosophy of Kapila, according to the commentary; hut see Max Muller, What can India teach us? p. 362.

^221:6 These are the six Angas which in the same order occur in the well-known versus memorialis. Indeed, that verse is nearly identical with the passage in our text.

^222:1 I.e. of that part of it which lies to the south of mount Meru.

^222:2 According to the commentators, wearing clothes resembling the dustless sky.

^223:1 Kadaga, tudiya, keura. Kataka is the well-known kankana, trutika is explained by bahurakshika, keyura by angada. The last two are bracelets worn on the upper arm.

^224:1 Names of precious stones.

^224:2 The text has literally, the best lotus among men.

^224:3 These words are variously and always somewhat fancifully interpreted. One explanation is ascribed to the Aupanishadikas, whom I do not remember to have found noticed anywhere else in Gaina books.

^225:1 According to the commentary all the epithets from 'the enlightened one' down to 'who has reached' are intended by this &c.

^227:1 This name is rendered Harinaigamaishin in Sanskrit. He is represented in pictures as a man with the head of an antelope (harina). This is apparently the effect of a wrong etymology, interesting as the fact itself is.

^228:1 The contents of section section 14-28 are contained in Akaranga Sutra II, 15, section 4.

Life of Mahavira, Lecture 3

In that night in which the embryo of the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira was removed from the womb of the Brahmani Devananda of the Galandharayana gotra to that of the Kshatriyani Trisala of the