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KALPA SÚTRA.
spiritual instructors. Adoration to the sages in every part of the world*
Such is the fivefold adoration, the destroyer of all sin, and of all bringers of good fortune, the most fortunate.
The venerable ascetic Mahávíra, in the age and time of which we speak, met with five propitious conjunctions under the constellation (Kathuttarái) Uttaraphálguni, which were as follows; he descended from above in Uttaraphálguni, and entered on the fætal state; in Uttaraphálguni he was removed from one womb to another; he was born also ; he was shaved likewise, and from being a householder became a houseless wanderer, and, lastly, in Uttaraphálgunit, he obtained that real
* The original of this Jain Gayatri is as follows:नमो अरीहंताणं नमो सिद्धाणं नमो आयरीयाणं नमो उवज्झायाणं नमो लोए सव्व माहणं
† In explanation of what is meant by being under a constellation, take the following example :
Charitra Dvitiya, S. P., the second day of the Hindu year of Saka 1768, corresponding to March 29, 1846, was under the constellation Asvini, the first in the series; the next day, March 30, was under Bharani, the second of the series; and so on till all the twenty-seven constellations were completed, when the series began anew with the 28th day, or April 25. Each of these constellations is now divided into four parts, called feet,
