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First Study: The Story of Ananda
[9] Powerful in practice, endowed with extraordinary power, possessing the highest virtues, requiring extraordinary power to hold, the holder of such virtues, a great ascetic, a practitioner of intense austerities, a great celibate, a keeper of strict celibacy, with a body devoid of physical adornment, possessing vast brilliance within, a holder of fourteen previous knowledges, a sage, Ary Sudharma, endowed with four kinds of knowledge: Shruta, Avadhi, and Manahparyaya, surrounded by five hundred Shramanas, moving forward in a sequential order, from one village to another, enjoying a pleasant journey, arrived where the city of Champa was, where the Purnabhadra Chaitya was. The Purnabhadra Chaitya was outside the city of Champa, where the Lord, in accordance with the appropriate and proper conduct of a sage, took up residence and stayed, cultivating the soul with restraint and austerity.
At that time, Ary Sudharma's eldest attendant, Ary Jambu, an unmarried man, born in the Kashyap gotra, whose body was seven hands tall, who possessed a body with four limbs in perfect harmony, with proportionate limbs, balanced and coordinated structure, who possessed a unique body structure with strong bone ligaments like a vajra, a rishabha, and a naraacha, who was golden in color like a lotus, with the glow of a gold line marked on a touchstone, who was a great ascetic, who was like fire in burning away intense ascetic deeds, who was a heated ascetic, whose body bore the intense glow of austerity, who was a great ascetic, powerful, intense, possessing intense virtues, a great ascetic, a great celibate, with a body devoid of adornment and possessing vast brilliance, stood not too far, not too close to the sage Ary Sudharma. He raised his knees, lowered his head, and stood in a meditative posture, cultivating the soul with restraint and austerity.
Then, a desire arose in the mind of Ary Jambu, an unmarried man, with faith, doubt arose in the sense of uncertainty, doubt, and curiosity. Again, a feeling of faith arose in his mind, doubt arose, curiosity arose. He got up, went to where the sage Ary Sudharma was, and came. Arriving there, he circumambulated the sage Ary Sudharma three times, offering salutations and prostrations. Having done so, he stood not too close, not too far from the Lord, with a desire to listen, offering salutations, with folded hands in humility, seeking his guidance, and said, "O Lord! Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira [who, upon attaining omniscience, first initiated the Shruta-dharma, the founder of the fourfold dharma-tirtha of Tirthankara-Shraman-Shramani-Shravaka-Shravika, self-enlightened, attaining enlightenment without any external cause or help, endowed with unique super-powers, therefore the best of men, the lion among men due to his abundance of courage, the best of men, like a white lotus, free from all impurities, like the best of elephants, the best of the world, the lord of the world, the one who moves against the flow of the world, on the path of spirituality, or the light of the world, the one who spreads the light of dharma in the world, the one who gives fearlessness, the one who gives refuge, the one who opens the inner eye, the one who shows the path, the one who gives restraint-life and enlightenment, the one who gives dharma, the one who preaches dharma,