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652 respectfully addressing śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvira, said :Bhagavan ! The followers of other faiths say that outside the Rāja-griha Nagara, underneath the Vaibhara Giri, there is a very large water-resei voir whose length and breadth extend to numerous yojanas The banks of this reservoir are beautified with multitudes of trees of various kinds. Big clouds are formed from this water reservoir and they pour down rains. Besides this, the large mass of water continues to flow permanently in the form of streams of hot water. Bhagavan ! Is there any truth in what the followers of Other Faiths say in this matter ?
Bhagavāna :-(tautama ! What the followers of Other Faiths say, is not quite true. I think that the water-stream issuing from a very hot locality near Viabhāra Giri outside Rājagriha Nagara is a water-stream named Mahātapastira. prabhava. Its length and breadth extends to five hundred Dhanu. syas. Its banks are embellished with excellent trees of various kinds and they appear very elegant.
Five-bodied beings take birth and die in this hot spring, and hot water--bodied living beings are produced there and they flow
एवमासिक्खंति जाव जे ते एवं परुति मिच्छं ते एवमाविक्खंति जाव सब्च नेयव्यं, जाव अह पुण गोयमा ! एवमातिक्खामि मा० पं. एवं खलु रायगिहस्स नगरस्स बहिया वेभारपव्ययस्स अदूरसामंते, एत्य णं महातवो वतीरप्पभवे नाम पासवणे पन्नते पंचधनुषयाणि आयामविक्खमेणं नाणादुम संडमंडिउद्देसे सस्सिरीए पासादीए दरिसणिज्जे अभिरुवे पडिरुवे तत्थ णं बहवे उसिणजोणिया जीवा य पोग्गला य उदगत्ताए वक्कमति विउ. कमति चयति उववज्जति तव्यतिरित्तेवि य णं सया समियं उसिणे २ आउयाए अभिनिस्सवइ, एस णं गोयमा ! महातवोवतीरपम पासवणं एस णं गोयमा ! महातवोवतीरप्पभवस्स पासवणस्स अटे पन्नते, सेव भंते !२त्ति भगवं गोयमे समणं भगवं महावीरं वंदति नमंसति ॥ (सूत्र. ११३)॥
॥ भगवती सूत्रे-शतके २-उद्देश ५. पृ-३४१ ॥
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