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O intelligent person! Is there not any incompatibility in the two conceptions of religion? Both were a Sarvajna. Omniscient; why did they creat this difference in conceptions :
तो केसिं घुवंतं तु गोअमो इणमब्बवो । पण्णा समिक्खए धम्म तत्तं तचविणिच्छयं ।। २५॥ पुरिमा उज्जुजडा उ, वक्कजडा य पच्छिमा। मज्झिमा उज्जुपण्णा उ, तेण धम्मे दुहा कए ॥ २६॥
पुरिमाणं दुबिसोझो उ, चरिमाणं दुरणुपालओ।
कप्पो मज्झिमगाणं तु, सुविसोझो सुपालओ ॥ २७॥ 25. Tao Késim buvantam tu Goamo iņamabbavī;
Paụņā samikkhaé Dhamman-tattam tatta vinicchayam. 26. Purimā ujju-jadā u, vakka-jada ya pacchimā;
Majjhimā ujju-paņņā u, téņa Dhammé duhā kaé. 27. Purimāņam duvvisojjho u, carimāṇam duranupālao;
| Kappa majjhimagănam tu, suvisojjho supālao.
25–26 Then, on being thus questioned by Śramaņa Kési Kumāra, Ganadhara Mahārāja Indrabhūti Gautama replied:"The Essence of Dharma is known by intellect; and principles, alone decide the true nature of Jîya and other capegories The ascetics of the time of Tîrthankara Bhagavān Sri Risabha-déva,-the first Tîrihankara, of the present series of twenty-four Tîrthankaras were straight-forward and dull, the ascetics of the time of Tîrthankara Mahārāja śramaya Bhagavān Mahāvīra Swāmī,-the last Tîrthankara-s of the present era ) are crooked and dull, while the ascetics of the time of intermediate twenty-two '1 îrthankaras were straightforward and wise Hence, the Dharma Eh, Rules Conduct ( preached for ascetics ) were of two kinds.
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