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At last, Siva Rājarşi remained without food and drink-materials for one month, and having destroyed all his previous Karmas, he attained Moksa Pada (state of Final Emamcipation) with perfect calmness of mind.
3. Diksa of Potthila, During this sojourn of Śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahavira at Hastināpura, a wealthy man named Poțghila of Hastinapura and several persons took Bhāgavati Diksă from the Venerable Bhagavana.
Potthila, Posthila was the son of a very wealthy merchant of Hastina pura, He was handsome and his father had contracted his marriage with thirty--two handsome young giris of wealthy merchants,
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