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248] Nyāya-Kusumānjali. उपद्रवपरीषहः, केवलज्ञामलाभध
गोपालाद्युपसगदुःखमसकृद् देवात् पुनः सङ्गमाद् घोराद् घोरमुपद्रवं विषहिता त्रैलोक्यवीरः क्षमी । हत्वाऽनादिसमस्तकल्मषमलं यः प्राप्य सर्वज्ञतां विश्वोद्धारणमातनोभिजगिरा तं वीरदेवं स्तुवे ॥४॥
I praise that Lord Mahavira, the forgiving hero of the three worlds, who endured more than once the pain of calamities ( Upasargas ) caused by cowherds and others and the terrible outrages of the ferocious god Sangama and who having attained omniscience by removing the impurity in the form of all beginningless sins ( Karmans ) brought about the elevation of the universe by preaching. ( 4 )
Notes :- After renouncing the world Lord Mahavira led a life of mortification for twelve years. During this period once upon a time a certain cowherd came to the place where he was sitting all absorbed in meditation. He left the bullocks to graze there and went away to milk his Cows. On not finding the bullocks there on his return, he inquired of Lord Mahavira; but when ho received no reply, he became excessively angry and tortured him by fixing nails in the cavities of his ears and cut off the outer portions of the nails 80 that no one might come to know of this, Lord Mahavira did not mind this horrible pain. After some time he happened to go to a Bania named Siddhartha, a resident of the city of Apapa,
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