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then observed the eleven gaat Pratimās,-Stages of Spirttual Development for a Śrāyaka. On account of severe austerities his body became greatly emaciated.
One day, nnder the influence of meritorious meditation Mahāśatakaji acquired safea Avadhi Jñana,-Visual Knowledge, and he was able to perceive and know objects as far as one thousand yojanas in the Sao FC Lavana Samudra, Salt Sea, in the East, in the South, and in the West. In the remaining directions he was able to see as much as Ananda Srāvaka did.
Once, when his wife tant Révatī was haressing him, Mahāśātakaji became angry with her, and knowing through the medium of his Avadhi Jñana, he said, “O Revati I overcome by diarrhoea, you will die with unbearing pain within seven days, and will be born as a #17 Māraka, -Hellish beingwith an age-limit of eighty-four thousand years in the hell den iyu Loluccaya, in the first hell
Révati, on hearing these words, was greatly alarmed and she thought, “To-day, Mahāśatakaji has become very angry with me, and he will any row kill me.' With this idea in her mind, she went home and passed her days miserably. As foretold by Mahāśatakajı, she died, and was born a 24 Nāraka,a Hellish being.
At that time, śramana Bhagavān Mahāvira happened to arrive near the village. Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra narrated the account of the anger of Mahāśatakaji towards his wife Revati and of the language used by him, and said, "O Gautama! Mahāśataka has renounced his body in ihe monastery, and has abstained from food and water till death. His body has become extremely en aciated because he has remained without food and water. It is not advisable that a man of his status should utter harsh words towards other individuals, even though the words uttered by him may be perfectly true. You, therefore,
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