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to pass this rainy season by observing fasts of one month's duration each together with a vow of keeping silence. He continued to stand in the same posture for several days and nights which he had adopted for meditation in the beginning. When the Rainy Season was over, he again resumed his Vihara.
THE EIGHTH CHATURMASA AND DISTURBANCE BY A VYANTARI.
During his Vihara, Lord Mahavira passed through many places, and at last reached a village named Bahushali. There was a forest named Shali-vana near that village. Lord Mahavira found it to be very calm and quiet and therefore fit for meditation. So he decided to stay there and stood under a tree in meditation.
Goshala sat down on the ground at some distance from the Lord. The tree, under which Lord Mahavira was meditating, was the hauot of a Vyantari, named Shalarma. Lord Mahavira must have been at enemity with her in some previous birth. She, therefore, wanted to take vengeance upon him. She played many tricks npon the body of the Lord. When she found herself unsuccessful in the one she tried another and then a third. Thus she gave him unbearable troubles, but the Lord welcome them all very gladly and freed himself from the bondage of her debts. He said "Money taken on loan has got to be returned sooner or later. Even the greatest man cannot lay a claim to become a Sowcar (a banker) until he pays all his debts, with interest. A Darsani Hundi (bill payable at sight ) must be paid atonce. If a banker delays in payment the Hundi loses its value and the banker
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