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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
138 The Last Five Upångas [V. Lect. 1. tthasiddha Vimana þigh above the moon, sun, planets, orbits, stars and the hundred habitations in the Gayijja Vimana of the eighty three lords of the Sohamma heaven. There the duration of life of the gods is expounded to be thirty three Sagarovamas.
189. Then Vardatta asked: “Venerable Sir, where will that god Nisadha go and where will he be re-born after the expiry of his life there, after the expiry of his existence there, after the end of his duration there ? Then Aritt. hanemi answered: " Varadatta, he will be re-born as a son in the royal family Visuddha-pii-vansa in the city of Unna in the country of Bhāraha, in this very continent of Jambuddiva. Then having completed his boyhood, being equipped with courtesy, attaining youth and having got pure enlightenment from worthy elderly monks, he will get himself initiated as a houseless monk ceasing to be a householder. He will become a monk protected in going (and so forth, down to) a self-restrained anchorite. There he will observe many one day's, two days', three days', four days', five days' fasts and half-monthly and monthly fasts and various other penances and will obigerve asceticism for many a year, and having done so he will mortify himself
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