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ŚRĪ MALLINĀTHACARITRA
laymen, three hundred and seventy thousand laywomen constituted the Lord's retinue as she wandered over the earth for fifty-five thousand years less one hundred years.
Her emancipation (262-266)
Malli went to Mt. Sammeta and undertook a fast with five hundred nuns and monks each. At the end of a month on the tenth day of the bright half of Phalguna in the constellation Vamya, she reached emancipation with the nuns and monks. Lord Malli, the Jina, lived for fifty-five thousand years as a maiden and in observance of the vows. Śri Jina Malli's emancipation took place a thousand crores of years after the emancipation of Aranatha. The Indras and gods by the crore came from all sides at that time and celebrated properly Lord Sri Malli's emancipation-festival.
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