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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA: FINAL DELIVERANCE : 165
The Ultimate Accomplished Siddha - • Ksetrakālagatilirigatīrthacaritrapratyekabuddha
bodhitajñānāvgāhanāntarasarkhyālpabahutvatah sādhyāh || 7 ||
Twelve parameters for the consideration of the ultimate
accomplished (Siddha) are - Place, time, penultimate birth, sign (ordained or inordained, own faith or the alien), and sex (male, female or neuter), prophet or nonprophet, selfmotivated or other-motivated, types of knowledge with which He is born in His last birth, body-stature in the last birth and the corresponding one in their ultimate blissful abode (Muktidhāma or Siddhasila), interval between the last Siddha and the one under consideration, number of souls liberated simultaneously and mminimal-maximal consideration in respect of the foregoing eleven considerations. (7)
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