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KALPA SÛTRA.
The Arhat Rishabha, the Kosalian, had eightyfour Ganas and eighty-four Ganadharas. (213)
The Arhat Rishabha, the Kosalian, had an excellent community of eighty-four thousand Sramanas with Rishabhasena at their head; (214) three hundred thousand nuns with Brahmisundart at their head; (215) three hundred and five thousand lay votaries with Sreyâmsa at their head; (216) five hundred and fifty-four thousand female lay votaries with Subhadrâ at their head; (217) four thousand seven hundred and fifty sages who knew the fourteen Parvas, &c.; (218) nine thousand sages who were possessed of the Avadhi knowledge; (219) twenty thousand Kevalins ; (220) twenty thousand six hundred sages who could transform themselves ; (221) twelve thousand six hundred and fifty sages of vast intellect, &c.; (222) twelve thousand six hundred and fifty professors ; (223) twenty thousand male and forty thousand female disciples who had reached perfection ; (224) twenty-two thousand nine hundred sages in their last birth, &c. (225)
The Arhat Rishabha, the Kosalian, instituted, &c. (see $ 146, down to) the former ended after numberless generations, the latter from the next Muhůrta after his Kevaliship. (226)
In that period, in that age the Arhat Rishabha, the Kosalian, lived two millions of former years as a prince, six millions three hundred thousand former years as a king, together eight millions three hundred thousand former years as a householder ; a thousand (former) years in a state inferior to perfection, nine-and-ninety thousand former years as a Kevalin, together a hundred thousand former years as a Sramana, and eight
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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 |