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Kummāputtachariam On hearing this advice of the Jina, some got faith, some took to Monk's Life, while some meritorious people accepted mentally the partial observance of the Five Vows. (163)
On the other side, the embodied souls of Kamalā, Bhramara, Drona, and Drumā, who had already gone to śukra Heaven, dropped down and became Khechara beings on Vaitādhya mountain in the Holy Bharata Region. (164)
All the four, who had enjoyed themselves with various worldly pleasures and who had taken to Monks' Life as a result of the preaching of a Chāraña sage arrived at that very place and took their seats after paying their respects to the Great Jina. (165)
On beholding them, the Sovereign king asked the Sovereign Lord of Religion :-“Divine Sir, who are these Chāraṇa sages with pure minds and whence have they come here ?” (166)
Then the Great Jina said "Hear, Great King. These are aerial beings who have come down here from the Vaitādhya mountain to pay their respects to us." (167)
Then the Sovereign asked :-“Divine Sir, is there at present any sovereign king or an omniscient monk in the Land of Bharata which has got the Vaitādhya mountain in it ?" (168)
The Jina replied—“There is neither an omniscient sage nor a sovereign ruler at present in the Bharata Land; but there is Kummāputta who is omniscient although a householder. (169)
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