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gāma.) JAIN (Life p. 302) distinguishes between Kumara(gāma) and Kummagama but does not identify the places. According to PANDEY, HGTB, p. 167, Kumāragāma may be mod. Kumar, Muzaffarpur district; deest GIP. Siddhatthagama: probably mod. Siddhangram, Birbhum district (JAIN, Life, p. 334); deest GIP.-rerijjamāna, in the description of the sesamum plant (cf. also VII 31), is not atiśayena rājamāna or dedipyamāna (Abhay.), but leliyamāna (Pischel 279) lelāyamāna 'quivering' (SCHUBRING p. 258).
B 54. (665b) One day, at the outskirts of Kundagāma, G. thrice insulted the non-jaina ascetic (bala-tavassi) Vesiyāyaṇa. Vesiyāyaṇa at last tried to kill G. by means of his magic power of emitting a fiery lessä, but Mv. saved G. with his own. Afterwards Mv. explained G. what had happened and also taught him the ascetic discipline by which that magic power is obtained.
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For saôsinam (: svām svakiyām uṣṇām scil. tejo-lesyam, Abhay.), not siôsinam (text), and for viyaḍ'āsaya 'a mouthful (culuka, Abhay.) of water' see SCHUBRING p. 258.
B 5. (666b) At some other time Mv. and G. passed the sesamum shrub mentioned in B 3 above. Mv. explained what had happened to it, adding that all plants are similarly capable of such a reanimation (pauṭṭa-pariharam pariharanti). Later on G. generalized that theory of reanimation and left Mv.
pauṭṭa-parihāra = pravṛtya-p. 'abandonment of transmigration', 'reanimation without transmigration' (BASHAM): lit. 'limitation [of rebirth] through remaining in force' (SCHUBRING p. 258, against Abhay.'s false etymologies).
B 6. (667a) Practising the ascetic discipline taught by Mv. in B 4 above, after six months G. obtained the magic power to emit a fiery lessā. (667b) He settled down in Savatthi (cf. A above), wrongly, as Mv. asserts, claiming to have reached Jinahood.
CI. (668a) G. is furious when he hears people repeat Mv.'s pronouncement on him. (668b) He tells the thera Ananda, one of Mv.'s disciples, a story: One day some merchants came across a huge ant-hill (vappī, °ppū, °ppā) with four tops. Opening them one by one, in the first hillock they found excellent water (orāla [: pradhana] udaga-rayana), in the second gold (o. suvanna-r.) and in the third gems (o. mani-r.). Hoping to find diamonds (o. vaira-r.) in the fourth top, they opened it against the advice of one of them, and out came a serpent which, by the magic fire in its eyes, incinerated them all except the one man that
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