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the termination of his allotted period of twenty säga ropams of residence there, of his divine body, and of his existence as a god (among gods) here, into this Bhārata varsa in Jambudvipa, into the southern half of Bnārata varsa when, of the present Avasarpiņi era, the (first) Suṣama-susama age of four koḍā kodi sägaropams), the (second) Suṣama age (of three koda-kodi sāgaropams), the (third) Suṣama-duḥṣama age (of two kodākodi sāgaropams) and a greater portion of the (fourth) Duḥsamasusama age (of one koda-kodi sāgaropama less forty-two thousand years) had elapsed, and only seventy-five years and eight months and a half of the fourth age were remaining, after twenty-one Tirthankaras of इक्ष्वाकु Iksvaku race and काश्यपगोत्र Kasyapa gotra and two Tirthankaras of gf Harivamsa and a Gautama gotra, on the whole twenty-three Tirthankaras (of the present series) had preceded-Sramaņa Bhagavan Mahavira, the last Tirthankara of the present series-whose advent had been foretold by previous Tirthankaras-took the form of a foetus in the womb of Brāhmaṇi Dévānanda of Jalandhara gotra, the wife of Brahmana Risabha datta of Koḍāla gotra, in the Brahmanical part of the town of Kuṇḍagrāma, during the middle of the night, when the Moon was in conjunction with the constellation Uttaraphalguni-the consteliation whose next is Hasta-after leaving off divine food, divine existence, and divine body. 2
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