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भगवती सूत्रम् शः ९ उः ३२ (Gängeya-Bhante ! Do you know yourself, or not yourself, by hearing or not by hearing infernal beings are born, not the non-existing ones, and so on ?
महावीरगंगेया ! सयं एए एवं जाणामि णो असयं असोच्चा एए एवं जाणामि णो सोच्चा सओ णेरइया उववज्जति णो असओ रइया उववज्जति जाव...सओ वेमाणिया चयंति णो असओ वेमाणिया चयंति ।
Mahāvira-Gangeya ! I know myself, not otherwise, not by hearing, without hearing, that the existing, not the nonexisting, infernal beings are born, etc. ..: गांगेय -से केण?णं भंते ! एवं वुच्चइ-तं चेव जाव...णो असओ वेमाणिया चयंति ?
Gangeya-Bhante ! How do you justify ?
महावीर-गंगेया! केवली णं पुरत्थिमेणं मियं पि जाणइ अमियं पि जाणइ। दाहिणणं एवं जहा सद्द देसए जाव...णिव्वुडे णाणे केवलिस्स । से तेण?णं गंगेया ! एवं वुच्चइ-तं चेव जाव...णो असओ वेमाणिया चयति । .
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Mahāvīra Gängeya ! The omniscient know things in the east within a limit' and beyond limit ; and like this in the south ; and like this (as said in S. 6. U. 4) till the knowledge of the omniscient takes no limit. Gāngeya ! Thus do I justify.
गांगेय—सयं भंते ! णेरइया णेरइएसु उववज्जति असयं णेरइया गेरइएसु उर्ववज्जति ?
Gängeya-Bhante ! : Are the infernal beings. themselves, or not themselves, born among the infernal beings?
महावीर-गंगेया ! सयं णेरइया णेरइएसु उववज्जति णो असयं णेरइया णेरइएसु उववज्जति ।
themselves,
not
Mahāvīra----Gängeya ! They are born other wise.
