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SRI NAMINATHACARITRA
361
knowledge, twelve hundred and sixty who had mindreading knowledge, sixteen hundred who had omniscience, five thousand who had the art of transformation, one thousand disputants, one hundred and seventy thousand laymen and three hundred and forty-eight thousand laywomen (in the congregation) of the Lord.
His emancipation (108-112)
Knowing that it was time for his emancipation, the Lord went to Mt. Sammeta with a thousand monks and began a fast. At the end of a month on the tenth day of the black half of Vaisakha in the constellation Aśvini, the Master and the monks reached an abode from which there is no return. Lord Nami's age was ten thousand years-twenty-five hundred as prince, five thousand as king, and twenty-five hundred in the vow. Six hundred thousand years elapsed from the nirvāņa of Munisuvrata to the Lord Nami's nirvāņa. The Indras and the gods came there and held the emancipationfestival accompanied by funeral rites of Sri Nami and
his retinue.
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