Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 2 Vibhag 1

SR No.: 008002
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 623
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 14 MB

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2. He was intelligent, karned gifted with extensive Avadht Mäna, kad a remembrance of many previous lives, and was free from from pain. He was tho ornament of the world-eurpassing the world by bis ipaabe qualities of intelligence, beauty, fortitude etc.
आमलको क्रीडा Amalaki Krida. Whem Vardhiamāna Kumāra was nearly seven years old, although he was devoid of sportive curiosity, one day, at the instigation of some of his companions of equal age, he went out of the town along with them, and began to play near some trees there. By mutual agreement it was settled, that he who climbed up the tree and came down from it in the shortest period of time, will ride on the back of other boys and will make them move on.
At that time, the launa of the Saudharma devamtoka, while conversing on various interesting topics with gods in the Saudharma Sabba ( council-hall), and touching on the subject of fortitude, said “O godø ! althougla Bhagavān Vardhamana is quite a boy bic valo'ır ad fortitude ate unparalleled, and no god, demi gou ou la cerchi sultenus cong the they be, is able to frighten him away or defeat him by his strength.” On bearing these words of Saudharmendra, one of the gods who was very wicked and insolent on account of his having highly heretical beliefs, thought " Only fortunato people at have a lord whose speech should be considered lovely although he may talk without..rhyme or rhythm and whose speach wall not open to refutation alchough it was full of arroganca. and diegust; is it possible that gods and demi gods possessing immeasurable strength cannot defeai one who is only a child i Is a mirror necessary for viewing an arml et on one's hard I will immediately go there, sad test hia tortitude". With thja idea. In his mind, he went to the place where Vardhamana Kumhe was plaging under the tree, and with the objects of terrifying him, ha asormed the form of a fomidable bruge