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KALPA SÓTRA.
unimpeded, complete, and perfect. But in Svâti the Venerable One obtained final liberation. (1)
End of the First Lecture 2.
In that period, in that age the Venerable Ascetic Mahåvira, having on the sixth day of the fourth month of summer, in the eighth fortnight, the light (fortnight) of Ashâdha, descended from the great Vimâna, the all-victorious and all-prosperous Pushpottara, which is like the lotus amongst the best things, where he had lived for twenty Sågaropamas till the termination of his allotted length of life, of his (divine nature, and of his existence (among gods); here in the continent of Gambadvipa, in Bharatavarsha,—when of this Avasarpint era the Sushamasushamâ, the Sushama, and Sushamaduhshamâ periods, and the greater part of the Duhshamasushamâ period (containing a Kodákodis of Sâgaropamas, less fortytwo thousand years) had elapsed, and only seventytwo years, eight and a half months were left, after twenty-one Tîrthakaras of the race of Ikshvaku and of the Kâsyapa gotra, and two of the race of Hari and of the Gautama gotra, on the whole twentythree Tirthakaras had appeared,—the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira, the last of the Tirthakaras, took the form of an embryo in the womb of Devânanda, of the Galandharayana gotra, the wife of the Brahmana Rishabhadatta, of the gotra of Kodála, in the
1 Cf. Âkârânga Sätra II, 15, $ 1.
* Vakana. These vakanâs are the parts into which the Kalpa Sätra is generally divided by some commentators. I have adopted the distribution of Samayasundara.
SA koh of kotis or 100,000,000,000,000.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |