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हजार केवलज्ञानी, ग्यारह सौ वैक्रियलब्धिधारी, [ह सौ मति] साढ़े सात सौ विपुलमति और यह सौ वादियों की सम्पदा थी ।
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भगवान् पार्श्व के एक हजार श्रमण सिद्ध हुए, दो हजार साध्वियां हुई और वारह सौ साधु धनुत्तरोपपातिक विमान में उत्पन्न हुए।
१५८. पुरुषादानीय ग्रहंतु पार्श्व के समय में अन्तकृत् भूमि दो प्रकार की थी, यथा युगान्तकृत् भूमि और पर्यायान्तकृत् भूमि । भगवान् पाश्र्व से चतुर्थ पट्टधर तक मुक्तिमार्ग चालू रहा, यह युगान्तकृत् भूमि हुई और भगवान् पार्श्व के कैवल्यलाभ के तीन वर्ष बाद मुक्तिमार्ग प्रारम्भ हुआ, यह पर्यायान्तकृत् भूमि हुई । १५६. उस काल और उस समय पुरुषादानीय अर्हत् पार्श्व तीस वर्ष तक गृहवास में रह कर, तयांसी दिन छद्मस्थ श्रमण-पर्याय का पालन कर,
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He had a group of fourteen hundred followers who had attained the supreme avadhi-knowledge; a group of a thousand followers who had attained kevala-knowledge; a group of eleven hundred followers who possessed the power of occult transformation; a group of seven hundred and fifty exceedingly wise persons; a gathering of six hundred logicians, versed in disputations; a group of six hundred sages who were unbending and straightforward (rju-mati) in their thoughts and he also had a group of twelve hundred disciples who were in their final birth.
158. Arhat Parsva, the Chose One, had instituted a two-fold_time-phase for achieving the final end: an epoch-unit (yugāntakrtabhūmi) and a serial-unit (paryāyāntakṛtabhumi). The epoch-unit lasted for four generations after him and the serial-unit began three years after his kevala-knowledge.
159. In that epoch, in that age, Arhat Pärśva, the Chosen One, spent the first thirty years of his life as a house-holder. Then he lived in relative ignorance for eighty-six days. Finally, he dwelt in the supreme state of kevala-knowledge for a little less than seventy years.
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