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(1901) O Akampita, this is true, because it is my statement like other statements of mine; or because it is the statement of an omniscient one, like the statement of one recognised as omniscient (by you).
(1902) My statement is true and intransgressible because there are no (i.e. it is not actuated by) fear, likes, faults, infatuation, like the statement of an arbiter who is in the know of facts..
(1903) If you doubt as to how I am (i.e. can be called) omniscient, (I say) that is obvious, because I have dispelled all doubts. Gentle one, I am free from fear, likes, faults as there is no sign of these.
(1904) When his doubt had thus been dispelled by the Jina free from old age and death, the Sramaņa became a monk along with his 300 pupils.
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