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acquiring information. A third interpretation is that it increased the capacity of the organ of hearing to such an extant that the adept could distinctively hear every sound and every note emanating from a wide number and variety of musical instruments played in the twelve yojan spread of the army of a Chakravarti.
(8) Kshir-Madhu-Sarpirasav labdhi—This power turned the speech of the adept a sweet and delightful as the taste of milk, * honey and butter. It is said that when the milk of one hundred
thousand cows consuming sugar-cane is fed to fifty thousand cows, their milk in turn is fed to twenty five thousand cows and this process is continued till just one cow is left. The milk of this cow and the butter extracted from the milk of this cow is ultimate in sweetness and nourishment. The speech of a person endowed with this power has the same qualities of satiation and nourishment.
(9) Akshinamahanasik labdhi—When an ascetic endowed with this power collects alms from a kitchen, the remaining food in that kitchen would not exhaust even if hundreds of thousands of people were fed from it. The food in this kitchen would exhaust only when either the donor himself has eaten or that ascetic has eaten the
alms he collected. Sur (10) Many of these Shramans had acquired Rijumati (limited
range) manahparyava-jnana and many vipulmati (wide range) manahparyava-jnana.
(11) Many of them were endowed with Vikurvana or Vaikriya labdhi (having power of self-mutation or that of acquiring different forms of body).
(12) Many had Charan labdhi (special power of movement and speed).
(13) Many had Vidyadhar prajnapti labdhi. un (14) Many had Akash pratipati labdhi (the power to fly or to shower good or bad objects from the sky).
(15) Many had Akashativadi labdhi (power to control formless things like sky).
या समवसरण अधिकार
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