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The great penance done by God within twelve and a half years period is as under:
Six months fast Five months and twenty five days fast Four months fast Two months fast One month fast 15 days fast Three months fast 45 days fast 75 days fast
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God also did great penance called Bhadra Pratimā (Two days fast along with enormous worship), Mahābhadra Pratimā (Four days fast along with enormous worship) and Sarvato Bhadra Pratimā (Ten days fast along with enormous worship). In twelve and a half years, God took food only for 349 days, remaining days he did fast that too without water.
He did great penance to break his Karma. He did enormous worship. Once, outside Jrumbhak village, at the bank of Hrujubālikā River, in the farm of Syāmāk, below Shāl tree he was meditating. He had two days fast. God attained pure Kevalgyān in Uttarāphālguni constellation, on tenth day of bright half of Vaishākh month.
Immediately, the deities constructed place of sermons. Due to misfortune of this Bharatkshetra God's first lecture was unsuccessful. No one had the quality of pursuing initiation. Next dayi.e. on eleventh day of bright half of Vaishākh month, he went to Pāwāpuri. The deities constructed sermons. Plaintiff Indrabhuti
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