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Sramaņa Bhagavān Malāvira then removed his doubts by explaining the correct interpretations of the verses of the Védas and by actually showing him the Indras and other gods sitting in the assembly. The gods do not risit neco eta Manu. shya-loka, Human Habitation because they are deeply engrossed in enjoying celestial pleasures and also because they cannot bear the intense stench of foul odour spreading out from human habitation. They, however, come into this world on the ocoasion of the celebration of Birth, Diksā, Kévala Gnāna, Nirvana and such other auspicious occasions of a Tirthamkara attracted as they usually are, hy the superabundant overpowering influence of the presence of a Tirthamkara. But their nonappearance in this world does not prove their non-existence.' He took Dikśā, Initiation at the bands of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira along with his three hundred and fifty pupils.
Gañadhara Mahārāja Mauryaputra was sixty-five years old when he renounced the world. He then studied the various works of Jain Scriptures, for a number of years. After a period of fourteen years of ascetic life, Gañadhara Mauryaputra acquired 89 a Kévala Gnāna, Perfect Knowledge, at the age of seventy-nine.
Ganadhara Mahārāja Mauryaputra remained a Kévali for sixteen years and he acquired Te Moksha Padà, the State of Final Emancipation when he was ninety-five years old.
