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347. Driven by compassion and inspired by the wish to benefit Bhagavan Mahavir the god (Harinaigameshi) uttered, “This is the eternal tradition.” During the third month and fifth fortnight of the monsoon season when 82 days had elapsed since the descent and the eighty third was running; on the thirteenth day of the dark half of the month of Ashuin at midnight when the moon entered the Hastottara lunar mansion, from the southern Brahmin Kundapur district the god (collecting the embryo from the womb of Devananda Brahmini) came to the northern Kshatriya Kundapur district near queen Trishala (Kshatriyani) of the Vashishta clan, the wife of king Siddhartha of the Kashyap clan and famous among the Kshatriyas of the Jnata clan. He sterilized the atmosphere by replacing the contaminated molecules with clean ones and transplanted the embryo in the womb of Queen Trishala. He then took the embryo originally in the womb of Trishala Kshatriyani and going to the southern Brahmin Kundapur district transplanted it in the womb of Devananda Brahmini of the Jalandhar clan, the wife of Brahmin Rishabhadatta of the Kondal clan.
"Long lived Shramans ! When in womb Bhagavan Mahavir was endowed with three levels of knowledge (sensory perception, literal or scriptural knowledge and extra-sensory perception of physical dimension). He was aware that he was going to be shifted. He was aware that he has been shifted. He was also aware that he was being shifted.”
विवेचन-गर्भापहरण की घटना : शंका-समाधान-तीर्थंकरों के गर्भ का अपहरण नहीं होता, इस दृष्टि से दिगम्बर परम्परा इस घटना को मान्य नहीं करती, किन्तु श्वेताम्बर परम्परा इसे एक आश्चर्यभूत घटना मानती है। आचारांगसूत्र में ही नहीं, स्थानांग, समवायांग, आवश्यक नियुक्ति एवं कल्पसूत्र प्रभृति में स्पष्ट वर्णन है कि श्रमण भगवान महावीर ८२ रात्रि व्यतीत हो जाने पर एक गर्भ से दूसरे गर्भ में ले जाये गये। भगवतीसूत्र में भगवान महावीर ने गणधर गौतम स्वामी से देवानन्दा ब्राह्मणी के सम्बन्ध में स्पष्ट उल्लेख किया है-“गौतम ! देवानन्दा आचारांग सूत्र (भाग २)
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Acharanga Sutra (Part 2)
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