Nayadhamma Kahao

SR No.: 034981
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N V Vaidya
Publisher: N V Vaidya
Total Pages: 174
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 15 MB

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monks, has breathed his last... upto...is released from misery, on the peak of the Girnar mountain, after a monthly meal (i.e. after a month's fast), and without taking (even) water." Then those four monks, Yudhişthira excepted, on hearing this news from the vast crowd of men, returned from Hastakalpa, went to the monk Yudhistbira in the Sahasrāmravana park, renounced food and drink, expiated for (the faults in) going and returning, confessed the faults in begging (the pure and impure food they had received), showed the food and drink to him, and spoke as follows: "Thus. O B.,... Ariştanemi has breathed his last. It would be proper for us, O B., to leave (here) this food and drink that we have already received, and climbing slowly and slowly the S'atruñjaya mountain, to stay there emaciating ourselves with fasts and mortifications, without longing for death”; and having promised this to each other, they placed there that food and drink which they had already received, went to the S'atruñjaya mountain, climbed it slowly...upto... lived there not longiog for death. Then those five monks, with Yudhisthira as their leader, studied the fourteen Pūrvas, as well as Sâmāyika (j.e. Acāranga) etc., for many years, and having emaciated themselves with a fast of two months, they propitiated that (object), for which is undertaken nudity ...upto... there arose in them the infinite and excellent Absolute Knowledge (Kevala)... and they attained salvation.
[51.136] Then the nun Draupadi studied the Eleven Angas, beginning with Sāmāyika (i.e. Acārānga), with those Suvratā nuns for many years, and observing a mortification (fast) of one month, and having confessed and expiated her faults, and having died at the proper hour, was reborn in the heaven Brabmaloka. There, the duration of life of some of the gods is ten Sāgaropamas. There, the duration of the god Drupada also was ten Sāgaropamas
"The god Drupada, O Revered Sir, from there... upto... would put an end to his miseries in the Mahāvideba Varşa."
“Thus, verily, O Jam bū, the Revered Sage Mahāvīra... upto ... who has attained salvation, has preached this as the subject-matter of the Sixteenth chapter of Nāyas (or Illustrations)."
End of Chapter XVI.