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२६ चिंतयंतमिति प्रोष, पाको जीव संशय ।
विभावयसि नो वेदपदार्थ घृणु तान्यथ ॥ २६ ॥ 26 Cintayaňtamiti procè, prabhuh ko jiva samsayah 1 Vidhāvayasi no Veda padārtham sruņu tānyatha. 26
26 While he was thinking thus, the Lord .said "Have you any doubt about the existence of the Soul? You do not trace out the meanings of the words of the Vedas. Hear them now.
२७ समुद्रो मध्यमानः किं ? गंगापूरोऽथवा किमु ।
आदिब्रह्मध्वनिः किं वा ? वीरवेदध्वनिबमौ ॥ २७ ॥ 27 Samudro mathyamānab kim? Gangāpuro a thavā kimu;
Adibrahmadhvanih kim vā ? Vira-Védadhvani-r-babhau, 27
27 The sound of the verses of Védas being explained by Sramana Bhagayān Mahāyīra, appeared as if the ocean was being churned, as if it were the floods over the Ganges, and as if it was the first sound of Brahman.
śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra, then, explained in detail, all the arguments and inferences for proving the existence of the Soul, reciting various Védic verses and their precise inter pretations, and showing, at the same time, mistakes in the interpretaion of the same verses accepted by Indrabhūti Gautama.
Indrabhūt was straight forward, and was searching after Truth. He was convinced that the explanation given by Šramana Bhagavān Mahāvira about the Védıc verses was the most appropriate one, and that the view held by himself was not correct. His vanity disappeared. He acquired an accurate knowledge about the nature of things by the preaching of the Venerable Ascetic. He realised the transitoriness of all
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