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costume before" He recalled his previous births. He also recalled process of innocent bhiksha. He started searching for innocent substance which he can offer as bhiksha to God. Meanwhile someone has gifted Shreyanskumar with golden pots full of sugarcane juice. Instantaneously, Shreyanskumar requested God...
"Oh... God! Kindly accept this suitable sugarcane juice" God accepted the same in his palmate like pan. Excited Shreyānskumār happily poured juice in that. In this way God broke his fasts. Shreyanskumar started convention of 'Supatradān' in this avasarpiņi.
The deities rejoiced in the sky on this occasion with five 'Divya' (which includes shower of clothes, perfumes, flowers, 12.5 crores gold coins and announcement of 'Aho Danam... Aho Danam') On third day of bright half of Vaishakh month God accepted bhiksha for the first time and it became inexhaustible donation. Hence, we celebrate this day as 'Akshay Trutiya'
God didn't get any bhiksha for thirteen months. This was directly linked with the incidence, which occurred in one of the births, before attaining 'Samkit'. Bullocks were eating grains and hence, farmer was beating them. God saw this and became very disgruntled. Merciful God advised farmer to tie net on bullock's mouth instead of beating. In this way they won't eat grains. God thought bullocks would be saved from hitting. However, God forgot to tell him to remove net after completion of work. Due to this mistake bullock
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