"Worshipping the Lord of the Jinas, Parsvanitha, who resides in the temple of the city Harikankhi, I now give briefly an account of that very image, which has destroyed the pride of this Evil Age in its ability to do evil. There is a village called Harikaikhi in the land of Gujarat. In that village there is a magical image of the Lord Pargvanatha that is housed in a Jain temple bearing a lofty spire. The image is always worshipped by the faithful, three times a day, with various types of ceremonies. Now there was a time in the past, when that lamp of the Calukya dynasty, King Bhimadeva, reigned, when a Muslim chieftain named Atanubukka came with his army from the country of the Turukkas and destroyed the ramparts of the capital city of Anahilavadaya. In his rampages he came upon the temple of Pargvanatha that I just mentioned, in the village of Harikankhi. His army forced its way into the temple and broke the image of Pargvanatha. The chieftain chased all the villagers from their homes and then went back whence he had come. The villagers returned. The Jains gathered. When they saw the image of the Lord lying there broken they all began to talk at once, ‘Oh no! Can it be that even the Lord, with all his wondrous powers, has been destroyed by the barbarians? Where are his powers now”. But then, while they were all fast asleep, the Gods whose task it is to guard the images of the Tirthamkaras, came to them and instructed them, ‘Gather together all the pieces of this image and put them in the innermost chamber of the temple. Shut the door tight and lock it. Wait a full six months. At the end of that period of time, open the door and you will see that the image will be in perfect condition, intact, with all of its limbs’. (...) And when the sixth month was over, they opened the door and they saw the image of the Lord Paréva, intact, all its limbs unharmed. There were just a few spots on the nails and on the thumbs. The Jain community was delighted. They began to worship the image again, just as they had always done before. Jains, monks, nuns, and lay followers alike, came from all éver. They held a big festival in which they carried the image on a processional car. The Glorious Lord Pargvanatha, who possesses so many marvelous qualities, does so many astonishing feats. This was only one of them."
Parshvanatha

January 1, 1970