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Arhat Rşabha
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Arhat Rsabha of Kosala had an excellent community of 22,900 who were in their last birth. All of them had attained a blissful state. Arhat Rsabha had instituted two epochs marking the end, which were as follows : epoch signifying the termination of a generation, and epoch signifying the termination of categories, the former having terminated after innumerable generations had lived through and the latter within less than a 48-minute timespan after his attainment of omniscience.
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तेणं कालेणं तेणं समएणं उसभे अरहा कोसलिए वीसं पुव्व-सय-सहस्साई कुमार-वास-मज्झे वसित्ताणं तेसीइं पुव्व-सय-सहस्साई अगार-वास-मज्झे वसित्ताणं एगं वास-सहस्सं छउमथ्थ-परियायं पाउणित्ता एगं पुव्व-सयसहस्सं वास-साहस्सूणं केवलि-परियायं पाउणित्ता पडिपुण्णं पुव्व-सय-सहस्सं सामण्ण-परियायं पाउणित्ता चउरासीई पुव्व-सय-सहस्साइं सव्वाउयं पालइत्ता खीणे वेयणिज्जाउय-णाम-गोत्ते इमीसे प्रोसप्पिणीए सुसम-दुस्समाए समाए विइक्कंताए तीहिं वासेहिं अद्ध-णवमेहि य मासेहिं सेसेहिं जे से हेमंताणं तच्चे मासे पंचमे पक्खे माह-बहुले तस्स णं माह-बहुलस्स तेरसी पक्खेणं उप्पिं अट्ठावय-सेल-सिहरंसि दसहि अणगार-सहस्सेहिं सद्धिं चउद्दमेणं भत्तेणं अपाणएणं अभीइणा णक्खत्तेणं जोगमुवागएणं पुव्वण्ह-काल-समयंसि संपलियंक-णिसण्णे कालगए विइक्कते समुज्जाए छिण्ण-जाइजरा-मरण-बंधणे सिद्धे बुद्धे मुत्ते अंतगडे परिणिब्वुडे सव्व-दुक्ख-प्पहीणे।
२२७
In that period, at that time, Arhat Rşabha was a prince for 20,00,000 purvas, then he reigned for 63,00,000 purvas, in all 83,00,000 pūrvas in the household state; he was a monk for 1000 years and lived as an omniscient for 1,00,000 purvas 1000 years; altogether full 1,00,000 pūrvas in the order of a monk, and 84,00,000 pūrvas on this earth. Then on the exhaustion of his karma, giving experience name and lineage, at the termination time of the bracing-unbracing part of the descension phase of the cycle, less 3 years and 81 months, in the fifth fortnight of the third month of winter, on the 13th day of the dark half of
Māgha, atop Mount Astāpada, in the company of 10,000 monks, and courting the vow of taking food without water once in seven days, when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Abhijit, in the early part of the day, seated in the
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