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period he would be crushed to death during the early days of the rainy season in a landslide and this would enable him to achieve human life in a respectable family of a merchant in that very town. During this period of life, he would listen to religious discourses of worthy ascetics under whose influence he would give up the comfortable family life and accept the wandering life of a monk. He would observe all the rules as a monk, practise asceticism most carefully, confess all his faults, scrupulously refrain from all of them and would remain engrossed in meditation till death came. He would then be re-born as a god in the Saudharma heaven. After a couple of rebirths in rich families, he would finally achieve his salvation.
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