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PART 1
CHAPTER 1
SB, CR R0 CR CR CR 'A'M AN AD R Lord Mahavira Attains Hevalajuana,
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uch were the austere penances that Lord Mahavira practised and such was his power of control overmind, speech and body. He was absorbed in
meditation for the most part of his life and now hot success came to him at last. On the tenth day
r of the right half of the month of Vaisakha, he was absorbed in meditation as a part of his Bela (two days') penance with a Goduhasana posture ( i. e. seated like a person milking the cow ) under a shade tree, in the field of a layman named Shamaka, on the north bank of the river Riju Balika, outside village Jrimbhaka. The sun was very hot; the wind was blowing very fiercely; the plants, creepers and animals were being scorched to deah. At such a time, Lord Mahavira was practising penances under the roof of
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