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ARAI Moksba Mārya, the Path of Final Emancipation. It can be accomplished only during Agrafa Manushya gati, Human existence. The devout sages who are keenly intent on strictly observing the prescribed rules of religious practices are enabled to make themselves free from the miseries of this world and they alone are able to attain Final Emancipation.
Pandita Prabhāsa fully convinced by the explanation, took 7 Diksā, Initiation at a comparatively young age, at the hands of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira along with his three hundred pupils.
Ganadhara Mahārāja Prabhāsa was only six teen years old when he renounced the world. He then studied the various works of Jain Scriptures for eight years.
After a period of eight years of ascetic life, Gañadhara Mabārāja Prabhāsa acquired Tata Kévala Gnāna, Perfect Knowledge at a comparatively young age of twenty-four years. Gañadhara Mahārāja Prabhāsa remained a Kévali for sixteen years and he acquired pet Moksha Pada, the State of Final Emancipation when he was forty years old.
