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told her how matters stood, and when she pressed him further, he declared that in the shadow of that very tree there was a simple herb which would confer on any creature the nature of a man. Then he disappeared. There upon the woman marked out with a line the shadow of the tree and picked all the plants growing within it and threw these plants into the mouth of the bull. The man, by means of that plant placed in its mouth, though it was never known which particular plant it was that produced the effect, recovered his human form. As that medicinal plant though its precise nature was never discovered, brought about the desired result so that discrimination of the right object of veneration, having become obscured by delusion in this Kali age, brings about salvation by the devout cultivation of all systems though its precise nature is unknown. This is my decision.
· When Hemachandra bad in these words recommended the honouring of all systems, Siddharaja began to study all religions.
Here ends the story about the claims to veneration of all religions.
પૂર્વોક્ત વાતનું દષ્ટાંતપૂર્વક પ્રતિપાદન–
“ a lti 40 241 f4444i “ Zl? z'sgan 2412 ” 241 417 ને ન્યાય બતાવવામાં આવ્યો છે. જ્યારે વિશેષ દૃષ્ટિ જાગૃત થાય, ત્યારે દેવ તરીકે મનાતા બીજાઓ ઉપર મધ્યસ્થભાવ ધારણ કરીને યથાર્થ દેવની જ સેવા કરવી જોઈએ ”—૧૪
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