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namely, knowledge obscuring (
jn vara ya), Intution obscuring (dar an vara ya), Deluding (mohan ya) and Interfering (antar ya). Thereafter, he gave a sermon in the assembly of gods and men, explaining the difference between good and bad and showing the path towards well-being and established the four-fold order ultimately becoming a T rthamkara.
Lord Abhinandana spent 12 lakh p rvas as a youth, 8 lakh p rv mgas plus 36-and-a-half lakh p rvas as king, and 8 p rv mgas less than 1 lakh p rvas as a monk, and this way, after spending a life of 50 lakh p rvas, when his life came to an end, he undertook a fast for one month along with 1000 monks, and destroying all karmas, attained nirva on the eighth day of the bright half of the month Vai kha under the constellation Pu ya. Innumerable souls found their means of salvation through his pure teachings. 116 ga as and Ga adharas, 14000 omniscient, 11600 telepaths, 9800 Avadhij n, 1500 who knew the 14 purvas (p rvadh ris), 19000 Vaikriya, 11000 v ds, 300000 monks, 630000 female-monks, 288000 votaries and 527000 female votaries were part of his large congregation.
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