Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.s2.615

v2.c8.s2.615

Then the following idea struck to the mind of Sakka(3), the king of gods. It has never happened, nor does it happen, nor will it happen that Arhats, Cakkavaṭṭis, Baladevas(2) or Vāsudevas(1) take birth in low families, mean families, degraded families, poor families, indigent families, beggars' families or Brahmin families. They are always born in Ugga families, Bhoga families, Rāiṇṇa families, Ikkhāga(2) families, Khattia families, Harivaṃsa(1) families or in such other families. This is a wonderful thing that Titthayara Mahāvīra has taken the form of an embryo in the womb of Brāhmaṇa lady Devā- ṇamdā.¹¹ Then he called god Hariṇegamesi, the commander of infantry, and ordered him to transfer the embryo from the womb of Devāṇamdā to that of Tisalā, wife of Khattiya Siddhattha(1) of the northen Kṣatriya part of the Kumḍapura¹² settlement, and the embryo from the womb of Tisalā to that of Devāṇamdā.¹³ Hariṇegamesi acted accordingly.¹⁴ This event took place on the thirteenth day of the dark half of the month of Āśvina (after the lapse of eighty-two days) when the moon was in conjunction with the Hatthuttarā constellation.¹⁵ The knowledge of Mahāvīra was three-fold. He knew that he was to be removed, he knew that he was removed, and he did not know that he was being removed.¹⁶