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preacher in his capital went over to him with all his ministers and generals. He was charmed with the religious splendour of the Lord and the great assembly of devotees of both sexes. He is said to have put sixty thousand questions to Mahavira and received most satisfactory, answers before joining the Holy Order.
Thus travelling from place to place with the whole of his order of ascetics, preaching the philosophy of Karma and converting kingdom. after kingdom to Jainism, Mahavira passed the last thirty years of his life.
CHAPTER XXI
Nirvana. The day without a cloud had passed And thou wert lovely to the last; Extinguished, not decayed ! As stars that shoot along the sky Shine brightest as they fall from high. ***
-BYRON. Can that man be dead Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind ? He lives in glory; and his speaking dust Has more of life than half its breathing
moulds. -Miss LANDON.
