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milk. Henceforth Mahavira had only a single divine cloth to cover his body.
On that day (of his initiation), he was on a two-day fast missing six meals in all. His tinge was pure. It was the season of winter. It was the 10th day of the month of Margasirsa. The day was named as Suvrata, the moment as Vijaya, and it was the fourth quarter of the night when the star Uttara-phalguni was in conjunction with the moon. While bowing to the liberated souls, asceticism in the great assembly of gods and men, he accepted based on equanimity (samayika) and uttered the following words:
Savvam me akaraņijjam pāvakammam
(From this day, I desist from all sinful acts).
There was silence everywhere. That day, the winkless eyes of thousands of gods and men witnessed the superb scene. Just then, the manah-paryaya knowledge (knowledge of the fourth type) was attained by him.
Resolve
Immediately after his initiation, Mahavira took leave of his friends, relations and kinsmen, and dismissed them. Thereon he resolved as follows:
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'Henceforth for 12 years, I shall remain indifferent to my body and take no care of it. If during this period any disturbance is created by gods, men, animals or birds, I shall bear it with perfect equani - mity.'
Thereafter, he moved out from the Jnaty -khanda park. On the same day, just a muhurta (48 minutes) before sun-set, he reached a village named Kumara and stood in meditation.
BHAGAVAN BUDDHA
When the Bodhi-sattva was in the Tuşit -loka, there arose a din about (the imminent birth of) the Buddha. Having learnt that on the expiry of a thousand years, the omniscient Buddha would be born in the world, the Lokapāla
