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Arhat Pārsva
the kevala knowledge, 1100 who could transform themselves, 600 with straight intellect, 1000 perfected males, 2000 perfected nuns, 750 with vipula-mati or vast intellect, 600 logicians and 1200 in their last birth.
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पासस्स गं अरह पुरिसादाणीयस्स दुविहा अंतगड - भूमि होथ्या । तं जहा - जुगंतकड भूमि य परियायंतकड भूमि य जावचउथ्था पुरिस - जुगाओ जुगंतकड भूमि ति वासं परियाए अंतं प्रकासी । १६७
The celebrated Arhat Pärśva had instituted two epochs marking termination, one terminating a generation and the other terminating categories; the epoch terminating generation, till the fourth generation (after Pårśva); and the epoch terminating categories for three years (after his attainment of the state of omniscience). 167
तेणं कालेणं तेणं समएणं पासे अरहा पुरिसादाणीए तीसं वासाई अगारवास-मज्झे वसित्ता तेसीइं राइंदियाई छउमथ्य - परियायं पाउणित्ता देसूणाई सत्तरि वासाइं केवलि - परियायं पाउणित्ता पडिपुण्णाई सत्तरि वासाई सामण्ण परियाय पाउणित्ता एक्कं वास सयं सव्वाउयं पालइत्ता खीणे वेयणिज्जाउय-णाम-गोत्ते इमीसे प्रोसप्पणीए दूसम - सुसमाए बहु-विइक्कंताए जे से वासाणं पढमे मासे दोच्चे पक्खे सावण - सुद्धे तस्स णं सावणसुद्धस्स अट्ठमी पक्खेणं उप्पि सम्मेय - सेल - सिहरंसि अप्प - चउत्तीसइमे मासिएणं भत्तेणं पाणएणं विसाहाहिं णक्खत्तेणं जोगमुवागएणं पुव्वण्हकाल-समयंसि वग्घारिय-पाणी काल गए जाव सव्व - दुक्ख - प्पहीणे । १६८
In that period, at that time, the celebrated Arhat Pärśva lived. as a householder for 30 years, as a monk 83 day-nights, and slightly less than 70 years as an omniscient being - full 70 years in the order of śramaņas, and a hundred years on the whole. Then on the exhaustion of his vedaniya karma, life-span, name and lineage, when a good part of the unbracing-bracing epoch in the flow of this descension phase had passed, in the first month of the rainy season, in the second fortnight, on the eighth day of the bright half of Śravana, when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Viśākhā, in the early part of the day, atop Mount Sammeta, by courting the vow of taking food without water once at the end of the month, he passed
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