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Nama guttassa vā kammassa akkhiņassa avélassa anijjinn assa udaenam.
[It was through the influence of the Nica Gotra Nama Karma नीचगोत्रनामकर्म, a karma which is the cause of birth in a low family, which Was not destroyed, which was not experienced, and the particles of which were no worn out, that Venerable Saint Mahāvīra had to assume the form of a foetus in the embryo of a Brāhamaņi.]
This Nica Gotra Nama Karma feðgamgiù, (a variety of evil karma which produces birth in a low family) the Venerable Ascetic Bhagavān Mahāvīra had acquired during his third previous Bhava a Existence, 88 Merici मरीचि the son of Bharata Cakravartin erf when he even during his ascetic life had boasted of his birth in a very high family. his father being a Cakravartin, his grandfather being a Tirthankara (viz Bhagavän Śri Risabha-déva, the first Tirthankara of the present series of twenty-four Tirthankaras) and he himself being destined to become a Vāзudeva, a Cakravartin, and the last Tirthankara (as Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra) during his sbbsequent existences.
It was on account of the Nica Gotra Nama Karma thus acquired, and which had remained unconsumed that Śramana Bhagavan Mahavira had to take the form of a foetus in womb of Brāhmaṇi Dévānandā ar wife of Brāhmaṇa Risabha-datta ऋषभदत at Brāhmaṇa Kuṇḍa-grāma IGURES, Nagara during his twenty-seventh Bhava.
Sakréndra then, thought:
{6, ĦĦ aftgar an, amagt an, coèar an, angdar an, अन्तकुळेसु वा पन्तकुळे वा, तुच्छदरिद्दभिक्खाग किविणमा हणकुलेसु वा, arang a, aurifà a, arurgeéfà ai, gfsfa nsyang anfig a1, amifa at, anfueeifà æ, àì àa ó sìoismofazzamquoi farafág aı, faæaufa a1, fàcrafquifa a 11 26 11
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