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Kalpa Sūtra attainment of supreme knowledge, the epoch terminating categories; and thereafter have closed the categories. 146*
तेणं कालेणं तेणं समएणं समणे भगवं महावीरे तीसं वासाइं अगार-वास-मज्झे वसित्ता साइरेगाई दुवालस वासाई छउमथ्थ-परियायं पाउणित्ता देसूणाई तीसं वासाई केवलि-परियायं पाउणित्ता बायालीसं वासाइं सामण्ण-परियायं पाउणित्ता बावतरि वासाइं सव्वाउयं पालयित्ता खीणे वेयणिज्जाउय-णामगोत्ते इमीसे अोसप्पिणीए दूसम-सुसमाए समाए बहु-विइक्कंताए तीहिं वासेहिं अद्ध-णवमेहि य मासेहिं सेसेहिं पावाए मज्झिमाए हथ्थिपालगस्स ण्णो रज्जू-सभाए एगे अबीए छठेणं भत्तेणं अपाणएणं साइणा णक्खतेणं जोगं उवागएणं पच्चूस-काल-समयंसि संपलियंक-णिसण्ण पणपण्णं उज्झयणाई पाव-फल-विवागाइं छतीसं च अपुट्ठवागरणाई वागरित्ता पहाणं णाम अज्झयणं विभावेभाणे २ कालगए विइक्कंते समुज्जाए छिण्ण-जाइ-जरा
मरण-बंधणे सिद्धे बुद्धे मुत्ते अंतकडे परिणिव्वुडे सव्व-दुक्ख-प्पहीणे ।१४७ At that time, in that period, Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra lived for 30 years, as a householder slightly more than 12 years as a monk, and slightly more than 30 years as an omniscient person, in all 42 years in the order of monks, and 72 years in this world; after which, on the exhaustion of his vedaniya karma (which is to be gone through in this world), on the exhaustion of his life-span, name and lineage, in the course of this descension phase, when many years of the non-bracing-bracing phase had rolled down, when there remained 3 years and 8 months to complete it, in the very heart of Păvā, at the hall of writers of king Hastipālaka, all alone and without a second person, observing a vow of taking food, devoid of water, once every third day, at the time when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Svāti, in the hour of day-break, seated in lotus posture (padmāsana), reciting 55 courses of study (of the Vipāka Sūtra) on the outcome of karma, and explaining 36 inadequately explained courses of study (from the Uttarādhyayana Sūtra
*«The meaning of this rather dark passage is according to the commentary that after three generations of disciples (Vira, Sudharman, Jambusvāmin) nobody reached nirvåna; and after the fourth year of Mahāvira's Kevaliship nobody entered the path which ends in final liberation, so that all persons who before that moment had not advanced in the way to final liberation, will not reach that state, though they may obtain the Kevalam by their austerities and exemplary conduct."
- Footnote in Hermann Jacobi's translation of Kalpa Sūtra. Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 22 Part I p. 28.
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