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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SUTRA
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ted Ammada, a Parivrājaka together with his seven hundred followers to Sramana Dharma. His visit to Kausāmbi?
During his august visit to Kausāmbi the Master delivered his religious discourse in the assembly of Jayantī, her nephew king Udayana, his mother Mrgāvati and others at the Candravatarana Caitya. It is here that he initiated the princess to asceticism as nun on her express desire, after a great discussion on the abstruse religious and philosophical doctrines between her and the Master.
His;visit to Mithilā
On one occasion Lord Mahāvira appeared at the Mānabhadra Caitya in the city of Mithilā and explained the questions raised by Gautama Indrabhūti on the location and shape of Jambūdužpa island. Lord Mahāvīra at Moya*
During his stay at the Nālanda Caitya situated outside the city of Moyā the holy teachings of explanation took place between Agnibhūti, the second Ganadhara and the Master and between Agnibhūti and Vāyubhūti, the third Ganadhara on the topics of the prosperity, power and ability of the gods and the goddesses to assume various shapes, the union of two Indras of the northern and southern hemispheres, their quarrel, etc. The Master in Hastināpura"
In the Sahasrāmravana (mango-grove) of Hastināpura Lord Mahāvīra converted Śiva, a Vānaprastha ascetic (forest recluse) to Sramaņa Dharma on his express desire by explaining to him the question of the number of islands and seas in the Universe, etc. His activities in Rājagsha
It has already been pointed out that Lord Mahāvīra appeared sixtyfour times on the scenes laid at the Gunaśīlaka
Bh8, 12, 2, 441, 442. $ 16, 3, 1, 126.
16, 9, 1, 362. 4 Ib, 11, 9, 417-18.
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