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Thus Āryā Mahāsenakṛṣṇā completed Ãyambila Vardhamana penance in fourteen years, three months and twenty days according to the schedule prescribed by sutras and in proper manner. Among this, the days of ayambilas are 5050 and that of fasts are 100 days. Thus total days are 5150. In this penance. there is only ascending; and no descending. In this penance fourteen years and ten days are of ayambila and hundred days are of fast.
After this Arya Mahasenakṛṣṇā went to Arya Candanabālā and bowed to her. Then she (Arya Mahasenakṛṣṇā) began to wander engrossing her soul by many types of penances e.g.. fast etc. She became too weak due to those rigorous penances but she seemed lustrous by the internal flame of austerities.
Once, in the last hours of night, like Skandaka, Āryā Mahāsenakṛṣṇā pondered deeply-though my body has become lean, thin and reduced, yet, until, in my body are utthāna, bala, virya etc., it would be proper for me that, as the sun rises, I go to Āryā Candanahālā and taking her permission accept samthārā. Accordingly, next day, as the sun rose she went to Arya Candanabālā, bowed down respected her. and asked her permission for saṁthārā. Getting permission she accepted samthārā and without desire of death, she engrossed herself in auspiciousreligious meditation.
Arya Mahasenakṛṣṇā learnt Samayika etc. (six essentials), and eleven holy scriptures (angas) from Āryā Candanabālā, practised nun-conduct upto seventeen years and engrossing her soul by one month's santhārā, cutting off sixty meals, exhausting all karmas, with her last breath became emancipated i.e., attained salvation. (See Table 14) Among these ten aryās, the first Āryā Kālī practised nunconduct upto eight years; the second Arya Sukāli upto nine years. In this way, one after another, consecration period increased by one year of every queen (aryā). Last
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