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235 CHAPTER IV. DAŚA PÜRVADHARAS NO. 8 ŚRI ĀRYA MAHĀGIRI AND RYAM
21 AND ŚRİ ARYA SU-HASTI SŪRI
sri Arya Mahāgiri Life as a house-holder-30 years; Ascetic life 70 years (out of these, he was a Muni for 40 years, and as an Yugapradhāna for 30 years) Total Life-period 100 years. Svargagamana-in Mahāvira Sanivat 245. Gotra-Elāpatya-gotra.
Sri Arya Su-hasti Sūri Life as a house-holder 30 years, Ascetic life 70 years (out of these, he was a Muni for 24 years and an Yuga-pradhāna for 46 years. Total Life-period 100 years. Svargagamana in Mahāyıra Samvat 291. Gotrā-Vāśıştha-gotra.
Both the above-named Daša Pūrvi discriples (Ārya Mahā. giri and Arya Suhasti Sūri) of Śruta Kévalin Sthūla-bhadraji had been entrusted from their boy-hood to an āryā (sādhvinun) named Arya Yaksā-who brought them up with great care and gave both of them sound religious training; and hence it is said that the piefix ärya' has been aptly applied before their names.
By persevering study, and by careful and frequent repeti. tions of lessons, both the sādhūs, became well-veised in ten (10) Pūrvas-and they began to move about in various parts of the country.
Śrī Ārya Mahāgiri was very clever in religious preaching and through the medium of his highly illuminating and effective sermons, several persons renounced the world and took Diksā at his pious hands.
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