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COMPASSIONATE BHAGAVAN MAHAVIR
In the northern part of Vaishali there was a suburb named Brahman-kund. A rich Brahman named Rishabhdutt lived there with his wife Devananda. He was a devotee of Bhagavan Parshvanath. The being that was to be Bhagavan Mahavir descended into the womb of Devananda after completing its age in the tenth dimension of gods. (That night Devananda saw 14 auspicious great dreams)
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After eighty two days of this descent the king of Saudharma dimension of gods perceived through his Avadhijnan (extra sensory perception of the physical dimension) that the last Tirthankar is in the womb of mother Devananda.
After this the Indra thought.
A Tirthankar always takes birth in a Kshatriya (warrior) family or
clan. What a surprise ! The
future Tirthankar has been conceived in a Brahman family,
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