Agam 35 Chhed 02 Bruhatkalpa Sutra

Author(s): K C Lalwani
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira
Mount Mandara and the ocean deep. (Like) the moon, the sun, and gold pure, (Like) the earth, abode of treasures,
and well-fed fire. ] No more limitation was there for him, the Venerable One. Limitations have been stated to be four: limitation of objects, limitation of space, limitation of time and limitation of subjective senses. Limitation of objects ; of animate objects, of inanimate objects, and of those in a mixed state; Limitation of space ; of a village, a town, a forest, a farm, a house or a yard: Limitation of time; of a unit called samaya, of one called avalikā, one called ānāpānaka or a deep-breath/respiration, one.called a stoka(=7 respirations), one called a ksaņa (i.e., many respirations), one called a lava (=7 stokas), a paksa (a day), a muhūrta (= 70 lavas = 48 minutes), a day-night (24 hours), a paksa (15 days), a month (30 days), a season (4 months), a half-year, a year, or any other time-unit of a still longer duration; Limitation of subjective senses ; of anger, pride, attachment, greed, fear, laughter, affection, hatred, quarrel, calumny, sharp words, meanness, scandal-mongering, pleasure and pain, deceitful falsehood and evil of wrong faith. The Bhagavån had none of these.
118 से णं भगवं वासा-वास-वज्ज अट्ठ गिम्ह-हेमंतिए मासे गामे एगराइए णगरे पंच-राइए वासी-चंदण-समाण-कप्पे सम-तिण-मणि-लेठ्ठ-कंचणे समदुक्खसुहे इह लोग-परलोग-अप्पडिबद्धे जीविय-मरणे णिरवकंखे संसार-पार-गामी
कम्म-संग-णिग्घायणट्ठाए अब्भुट्ठिए एवं च णं विहरइ । Monsoon sojourn apart, the Bhagavān spent eight months of summer and winter as follows: if in a village, one night only in one village, and five nights if in a town; With similar feeling towards excreta and sandal, with similar attitude to hay, jewel, clay and gold, indifferent to pleasure and pain, free from limitation in this world as well as in the next, without a hankering for life and death, destined to overcome the mundane life, born to terminate the bondage of karma—thus he spent his time.
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