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(Mithilā) during two, Bhadrikā during two, Alavikä during one, Paņita-bhūmi during one, Śrāvasti during one, and the writers' building of king Hastipāla in the very heart of Pāvā one, this being his last sojourn during a rainy season.
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[He spent his last rainy season at the writers' building of king Hastipāla in the very heart of Pāvā.]
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तस्स णं अंतरावासस्स जे से वासाणं चउथ्थे मासे सत्तमे पक्खे कत्तिय-बहुले तस्सणं कत्तिय-बहुलस्स पण्णरसी पक्खणं जा सा चरिमा रयणी तं रयणि च णं समणे भगवं महावीरे कालगए विइक्कते समुज्जाए छिण्ण-जाइ-जरा-मरण-बंधणे सिद्धे बुद्धे मुत्ते अंतगडे34 परिणिव्वुडे सव्व-दुक्ख-प्पहीणे चंदे णामं से दोच्चे संवच्छरे पीइवद्धणे मासे णंदिवद्धणे पक्खे सुव्वयग्गी णामं से दिवसे उवसमि त्ति पवुच्चइ देवाणंदा णाम सा रयणी णिरिति त्ति पवुच्चइ अच्चे लवे मुत्ते पाणू थोवे सिद्धे जागे करणे सव्वथ्थसिद्धे मुहत्ते साइणा णक्खत्तेणं जोगं उवागएणं कालगए विइक्कते समुज्जाए छिण्ण-जाइ-जरा-मरण-बंधणे सिद्धे बुद्धे मुत्ते अंतगडे परिणिव्वुडे सव्व-दुक्ख-प्पहीणे ।
१२४
During this monsoon halt, in the fourth month of the rainy season, in the seventh fortnight, in the dark half Kärttika, on the fifteenth day, that being his last, during the night, Sramana
Bhagavan Mahavira passed away, went off, quitted the world, cut asunder the ties of birth-oldage-death, became perfected, enlightened and liberated, the maker of the end; he entered into liberation and ended all misery.
This occurred in the year called Candra, being the second year (of the yuga or lustrum consisting of five years), in the month called Priti-vardhana, in the fortnight called Nandi-vardhana, on the day called Subratāgni, also called Upasami, in the night called Devānanda, also called Nir-rti, at a lava called Arcya, at a prāņa called Mukta, at a stoka called Siddha, at a karana called Naga, at a muhurta called Sarvārtha-siddha, when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Svāti, (he) passed away, went off, quitted the world, cut asunder the ties of birtholdage-death, became perfected, enlightened and liberated, the maker of the end, he entered into liberation and terminated all misery.
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