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113 Monks at his hands, invariably acquired ATHITE Moksa Padathe State of Final Emancipation-sooner or later.
The auspicious name of Canadhara Bhagavān Indrabhūti Cautama is remembered at the commencement of every auspicious occasion by all Aryan Races and early in the morning by millions of devout lay-men and ascetics.
GANADHARA AGNIBHUTI.
Agnibhūti sfazla of Gautama gotra, the second Ganadhara of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahavira, was the younger brother of Ganadhara Bhagavān Indrabhūti Gautama. He was born at Gobara-gāma at 7A ( Gobbra or Govaraya ) near TRT Rajagriha, in the year 603 B. C He was a Brāhmin by caste and was well-versed in the four Védas and the six Upāngas. He had five hundred disciples who were receiving instruction in various branches of learning. He was very often busy, like his elder brother, in performing various 79 Yajna-Sacrifices.
He renounced the world at the age of forty-six and accepted area at Bhāgayatı Dikṣā-Initiation into the Order of Jain--Monks,-at the hands of śramaya Bhagavān Mahāvīra, and became his second Ganadhara.
He knew the twelve Angas including the fourteen Pūrvas and the Upāngas of the Jain Scriptures, and after the expiration of a period of twelve years as his Chadmastha Paryāya 3418aelu,-a period of a house-holder's entire existence or of an ascetic's life before the acquisition of doma Kévala Jñāna-a stage preparatory to the attainment of Kévala jñāna), he acquired maca Kévala Jñana,-Perfect Knowledge-when he was fifty-eight years old.
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