Ardha Magadhi Reader

SR No.: 006743
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: B D Jain
Publisher: Shri Satguru Publications
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 246
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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ARDHA-MAGADHE BEADER
he shall be born on this very Rayagappa bhái earth among the Neraiyal the maximum period of whose punishment is a Ságarovama. Returning from thence, he shall be born among serponts. Now there are twelve and a half lacs of species, families, classes, orders and so forth of the aqnatio five-sensed lower animals, viz., fish, tortorise, shark, crocodile, porpoise eto. In each of these kinds of life, he shall be repeatedly born many lacs of times. Returning. from thence, he shall be born many lacs of times among quadrupeds, reptiles, birds, four-sensed ani. mals, three-sensed animals, two-sensed animals, vegetables, bitter trees, plants with bitter juice, air. lives, fire-lives, water-lives and earth-lives4.
37. Returning from there, he shall be born as a bull at Supaitthapura. Once upon a time after just passing his calfhood, while digging up the loose earth of the river Gangá in the beginning of the rains, he shall die crushed by the falling bank of the river, and shall be reborn as a son in the family of bankers in that very city of Supaitthapura. There after passing his boyhood and entering into youth, he shall listen and attend to the doctrine in the presence of the right sort of monks, and leaving the wordly life shall enter into the monastic one. After following the life of a monk for many years, and
1. Tho Earth on which we live. 2. A denizen of hell. 3. artra, Skt. ATTET.
4.' Lives which have air, fire, water and their bodies,
earth for