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Pandita Prabhāsa fully convinced by the explanation, took a Diksă,-Initiation at a comparatively young age, at the hands of Sramana Bhagavān Mahavira along with his three hundred pupils.
Canadhara Mahārāja Prabhāsa was only sixteen years old when he renounced the world. He knew the various works of Jain Scriptures as he had several Labkhis.
After a period of eight years of ascetic fife, Canadhara Mahārāja Prabhāsa acquired a Kévala Jñana«Perfect Knowledge-at a comparativerly young age of twenty-four years, and he acquired A1997 Moksa Pada,-the State of Final Emancipation-when he was forty years old.
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