Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.s2.610

v2.c8.s2.610

When in the current descending cycle much time of the fourth era i.e. Dūsamasusamā had elapsed and seventy-five years and eight and a half months still remained, on the sixth day of the bright half of the month of Āsāḍha, when the moon was in conjuction with the Hatthuttarā constellation, Mahāvīra descended from the Pupphuttara celestial abode on the expiry of his period of life as a god. Then he took the form of an embryo in the womb of Devāṇaṃdā (2), wife of Brāhmaṇa Usabhadatta(1) of the southern Brahmanical part of the Kuṃḍapura⁸ settlement in the southern half of the Bhāraha region in Jambuddīva. He possessed three-fold knowledge. With regard to this event e.g. he knew that he was to decend, he knew that he had descended, he did not know that he was descending since that time i.e. the time of descending was very small.⁹