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Dialogue. * Kalodayi:- Bhagavan! Is an a-cita pudgala (lifeless substance) clearly visible and shining? How does an a-cita pudgala (lfeless substance) throw out light.
Bhagavāna:-Kälodâyin! An acita pudgala (life-less substance) throws out light when an enraged mendicant reciuse possessing Tejoléśyā sets out his Téjolesya, some particles of his Téjoléśyā fall near and some fall far off. All these a-cita (lifeless) particles of the Téjolesyā become clearly visible; they throw out light, they burn and they illuminate substances. O Kalodāyin ! An acita (lifeless) substance, thus, throws out light. Kalodayi was greatly pleased by the explanations given by Sramaņa Bhagavāna Mahavira.
Angära Kalodayî was usually observing fastings of two days, three days and of more days. At the end of his life, he remained in religious meditation without food and drink for a number of days, and he attained Moksa Pada (State of Final Emancipation).
During this year, Gañadhara Prabhāsa, remaining in religious ___*अस्थि ण भंते ! अचित्ता वि पोग्गला ओमासंति उजोवेति तवेंति पभासेंति ? हंता अत्यि । कयरे णं भंते ! अचित्ता वि पोग्गला ओभासंत्ति जाव पभासेंति ? कालोदाई ! कुद्धस्स अणगारस्स तेयलेस्सा निसहा समाणी दूर गंता दुरं निपतइ देसं गंता निपतइ जहि जहि च णं सा निपतइ सहिं तहि च णं ते अचित्ता वि पोग्गला ओभासंति जाव पभासंति, वए णं कालो दाई ? ते अचिता वि पोग्गला ओमासंति जाव प्रभासंति, तए णं से कालो. दाई अणगारे समणं भगवं महावीरं वंदति नमंसति २ बहुहिं चउत्थ छटहम जाव भावेमाणे जहा पढमसए कालावसे सियपुत्ते जाम सव्वदुक्खपहीणे। सेयं भंते ? सेयं भंते ? ति ॥ (सूत्र ३०८)॥
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॥ पृ.३२६-३२७ ॥
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