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130 of ten years of ascetic life, Ganadhara Métārya acquired 4 917 Kévala Jñana,-Perfect Knowledge-at the age of forty-six.
Ganadhara Mahārāja Métārya remained as a Kévall for sixteen years and he acquired Arga Mokşa Pada-the State of Final Emancipation-when he was sixty-two years old.
GANADHARA PRABHASA.
Ganadhara Prabhāsa of fiera Kaundinya gotra was the eleventh Ganadhara of śramaņa Bhagavān Mahavira. He was born at TTTT matt Rājagriha Nagari His father was a Bala and his mother was afonal Ati-bhadrā. He was a Brāhmin by caste. He was well-versed in the four Vedas and the six suits Upāngas, the Supplementary Sciences. He had three hundred pupils who were receiving instruction in various branches of learning under him.
Pandita Prabhāsa had a doubt in his mind about are Mokşa,--Final Emancipation-caused by contradictory verses of the Védas.
When, however, Pandita Prabhāsa approached śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra, with the object of removing his doubt, he was addressed thus
निर्वाणविषयसन्देहसंयुतं च प्रमासनामानम् ।
ऊचे विमुर्यथास्यं वेदार्थ किं न मावयसि ? ॥१॥ 1. Nirvāņa-visaya-sandéha-samyutam ca Prabhāsa-nām ānam
Ucé vibhu-r-yathästham Védārtham kim na bhāvayasi ?
1. The Lord (Sramaşe Bhagavān Mahāvira) told the eleventh Ganadhara named Prabhāsa, who had a doubt on the subject of a Mokşa,-Final Emanaipction-in his mind, “Why do you not trace out the exact meaning of the verses of the Vedas ?
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