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Mahāvira, told him :-Madduka! You have given a very suitable reply to the followers of Other Faiths. One should not say out anything on any subject unless he is perfectly familiar with it. One who carries on discussions among the public about the direct or indirect proofs or inferences about the nature of subject of which he is perfectly ignorant, or who propounds & theory of his own without having an actual accurate comprehensive knowledge of the subject, does an injustice to Arhanta Kévalins and the Religion promulgated by them. O Madduka! Whatever you said, is correct, appropriate and reasonable Madduka became greatly satisfied On hearing his own praises from the month of the Sarvajna śramaņa Bhagavāna Māhāvira himself, and after having received explanation about some other religious topics, hè went home.
Soon after the departure of Madduka, from there, Canada hara Mahārāja Indrabhati Gautama asked:-Bhagavan ! Is Madduka Śrävaka fit for Bhagavati Diksa ?
Bhagavāna:-Gautama | Madduka is not able to take Bhagavāti Dikså from me. But remaining as a house-holder he will very carefully observe the Twelve Vows of a house-holder, and after completing his full term of age- limit he will die, and will become a god in Aruņābha-Déva-vimāna (celestial aerial car named Aruņābha). Descending from heaven he will be born in a very wealthy family and will attain Moksa (Final Emancipation).
4. Dradhaprahari Muni.
At a very prosperous town named Mākandt Nagari in Bharata-ksétra, there lived a great millionaire named Subhadra who had acquired extensive fame and prosperity. He had a lovely
* Makandi Nagari was one of the five big towns of South Pancāla, destroyed by Sri Krisna on behalf of King Duryodhana of the Pandavās.
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