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had been observing his vows for the last five months and twenty five days. After duly breaking his fast he resumed his Vihara. Chandana-bala still remembered her final object; and as soon as Lord Mahavira had attained perfect knowldge, she accepted renunciation. She passed the remtining part of her life as a nun and devoted herself to the realization of Self. LORD MAHAVIRA OBSERVES HIS TWELFTH CHATURMASA IN THE TOWN OF CHAMPA.
After leaving Kaushambi and passing through the villages of Sumangala, Vaishali, Samansat-Kshetra, and Palaka etc, on his way, Lord Mahavira came to the town of Champa. The Rainy season was at hand. He, therefore, took his abode in the Dharma-Shala ( Public Hall ) of the AgniHotri Brahmins (Brahmins who performed fire-sacrifice. ) He stayed there till the end of the Rainy season, and observed his twelfth Chaturmasa with a continuous penance of four months. After duly breaking the fast he resumed his Vihara, and passing through the villages of Jrimbhaka and Maindhaka, he came to village Shanmani. THE LAST UPASARGA IN SHANAMANI AND THE INTERPERTATION OF THE LAW OF
KARMAN. Lord Mahavira had exhausted almost all the Karmas done in his previous births by this time. Only a few of them remained to atone for which he had come to Shanamani of his own accord. The soul of Lord Mahavira, in the previous life as Vasudeva Triprishtha had poured red-hot molten
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