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bodied) Also, he says that, the following four viz. Dharmastikāya 2 A dharmāstikāya 3. Ākaśāstikāya and 4 Jivāstikāya are A rūpikaya (formless bodied ) ; and only one astikāya viz. Pudgalastikaya is Rupi-kāya (one having a corporeal body. O learned people! Is, what Śramaņa Jnātaputra propagates true? What must be the actual think in his saying?
When these followers of other faiths were discussing this subject, the news of the arrival of Śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvira at Guņa Sila Caitya, had already reached Rajagriha Nagara, and crowds of people were going to Guna Sila Caitya with the object of having a darsana of the Worshipful Lord, and also of hearing his religious sermon. Among the crowd there was a house-holder named Madduka Madduka was a staunch devotee of Śramana Bhagavana Mahāvira and he had made a careful study of the chief tenets of Jaina Siddhantas. He was
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मधुएं समणोवासए अम्हं अदर सामंतेणं वीइवयइ तं सेयं खलु देवाणुप्पिया ! अहं मद्दयं समणोवसयं एयमहं पुच्छित तिकडु अन्नमन्नस्स अंतियं एयमह पडिसृणेति अन्नमन्नस्स २ ता जेणेव महुए समणोवासए तेणेव उबा० २ महुयं समणोवासयं एवं दासी - एवं खलु मद्दुया ! एवं धम्मारिए धम्मोवदेसर समणे णायपुत्ते पंच अस्तिकाये पन्नवेइ जहा सत्तमे सए अन्नउत्थि उहुए जाव कहमेयं महुया ! एवं ?, तरणं से समणोवास ते अन्न उत्थि एवं वयासी - जति कज्ज कज्जति जाणामो पासामो जहे न कज्जं न कज्जति न जाणामो न पासामो, तए णं ते अन्नउत्थिया महयं समणो वासयं एवं बयासी - केस णं तुमं मद्दया ? समणोवासगाणं भवसि जे गं तुमं एयमहं न जाणसि न पाससि ? तर णं से महुए समणोवासए ते अन्नउत्थिए एवं बयासी - अत्थि ण आउसो । बाऊयाए वाति ? हंता अत्थि, तुज्जे ण आउसो ! वाउवायस्स वायमाणस्स रूवं पासह ? णो विण्डे समह, मत्थि णं आज सो! घाणसहगया पोग्गळा ? हंता अस्थि, तुझे ण आऊसो ! घाणसहग
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