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Then Arhat Aristanemi clearly replied to Vasudeva Srikrisna in this way--Yes Kasna ! Definitely he helped. When you were coming to bow down to me then you saw an old man carrying one brick from the heap of bricks which was accumulated before his house on the main road. You had picked up one brick and carrying that placed it in his house. Seeing you putting one brick all of your followers, picking up those bricks put down in the house of that old man. Thus hy your this help the turmoil of putting down those bricks one by one inside his house finished. O Krsna ! Just as you lent aid to finish that oldman's turmoil, in the same way O Krsna ! that person also aided Gaja Sukumāla monk to completely annihilate the accumulated karmas of numerous previous births. Hearing this Srikrsna Vasudeva asked Arhat Aristanemi - Bhagawan ! How can I recognise that person ? Bhagawāna Aristanemi spoke thus unto Vāsudeva Sriks?na-OKrsna ! Returning from here when you will enter Dwārakā city, at that time seeing you the person who will be frightened and standing there due to completion of life span will die. You should consider that
definitely he is the person concemed. सूत्र ३५ :
तए णं से कण्हे वासुदेवे अरहं अरिट्ठणेमिं बंदइ णमंसइ । वंदित्ता णमंसित्ता जेणेव आभिसेयं हत्थिरयणं तेणेव उवागच्छइ; उवागच्छित्ता हत्थिं दुरूहइ; दुरूहित्ता जेणेव बारवई णयरी, जेणेव सए गिहे तेणे पहारेत्थ गमणाए। तए णं तस्स सोमिलस्स माहणस्स कल्लं जाव जलंते अयमेयारूवे अज्झथिए चिंतिए पत्थिए मणोगए संकप्पे जाव समुप्पण्णे ।
अष्टम अध्ययन
.११५.
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