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TOVAOYAYOPALOVACORDO PRODAAROORO
TE SHRAMANS WITH VARIOUS SPECIAL POWERS
24. (b) Many of these Shramans were endowed with the mental power to cast spells, curse and bless others; many with the vocal power to curse and bless others; and many with the physical power to harm and benefit others. Many of these Shramans were endowed with special miraculous or supernatural powers (labdhi) listed here
(1) Khelaushadhi labdhi—This power turned the phlegm of the To adept fragrant and medicinal.
(2) Jallaushadhi labdhi—This power turned the slime or mucous from the adept's ears, nose, eyes, tongue and body fragrant ** and medicinal.
(3) Viprudaushadhi labdhi_Viprud means constituents. This power turned the constituents of urine and faeces of the adept fragrant and medicinal.
(4) Amarshaushadhi labdhi-This power turned the touch of the adept curative. '
(5) Sarvaushadhi labdhi-This power turned the phlegm, slime from every part of the body as also the nails and hair of the adept agrant and medicinal.
(6) Powers related to memory-Many Shramans had different types of powers of memory such as-Koshth buddhi (the capacity to remember text and meaning eternally like grains stored in a silo or koshth), Beej buddhi (capacity to elaborate the meaning of an aphorism like growing of a large tree from a seed or beej; just as the Ganadhars on hearing the three word aphorism from a Tirthankar elaborate it into the twelve volume canon), Pata buddhi (the
capacity to contain the voluminous scriptural knowledge in memory * just as a piece of cloth or pata contains infinite fibres within and
Padanusari buddhi (the capacity to acquire knowledge of hundreds of verses of a scripture just by hearing a single verse (pad).
(7) Sambhinnashroto labdhi-This power gave every part of the body the capacity to hear. Another interpretation is that it gave the organ of hearing the capacity to function as all the sense organs in
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