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body, are not ours. To consider the outer / apparent things as one's own is the root cause of sorrow. Hearing this sermon of his, thousands of men and women became followers of the path of self-restraint. The Lord founded the four-fold creed (t rtha) and got the status of T rthamkara.
His congregation had 95 ga as and Ga adharas, the chief among them being Vidarbha. There were also 1100 omniscient, 9150 telepaths, 9000 clairvoyants, 2350 14 - p rvadh rs, 15300 vaikriyalabdhidh rs, 8400 V ds, 300000 monks, 430000 female-monks, 257000 votaries and 493000 female-votaries.
Out of a total life-span of 20 lakh p rvas, after spending 5 lakh p rvas as a youth, a little more than 14 lakh p rvas as king, 20 p rv mgas less than 1 lakh p rvas in the spiritual path of self-restraint, when he sensed his life coming to an end, after a month's fast, he attained enlightenment and nirv a, destroying the four obscuring karmas on the 7th day of the dark half of F lgun and, with him 500 monks, too, became liberated.
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