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observed deep meditation. In deep meditation he destroyed the four obscuring karmas and on the 14h day of the dark fortnight of Pau a under P rv ādhā constellation he attained pure knowledge.
After becoming a keval , he gave a sermon in the assembly of gods, celestial beings and men. Speaking of the sad desire for impermanent things in the world, he instructed about the efforts to walk on the path of salvation (mok am rga) and established the four-fold order, thus becoming a T rthamkara.
A little less than 25000 p rvas he observed the spiritual path of restraint and thereafter sensing his life span coming to an end, observed a month's fast with 1000 monks. Eventually, stopping the activities of the mind, speech and body, destroying all karmas on the 2nd day of the dark half of Vai kha under P rv ādhāconstellation, he attained enlightenment and nirva.
His congregation had 81 ga as and Ga adharas, 7000 omniscient, 7500 telepaths, 7200 clairvoyants, 1400 14-p rvadh rs, 12000 vaikriya labdhidh rs, 5800 v ds, 100000 monks, 100006 female-monks, 289000 votaries and 458000 female-votaries.
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