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sed in the Ocean of Milk. The Buddha, in contrast, hurled his hairs in the sky where, at a height of a yojanu, they became fixed. Indra collected them from the sky in a pot made from gems and gave them the shape of a caitya named Cudamani in the Trayas-trimsaloka.
It has been stated about Mahavira that his hairs, beard, pore-hairs and nails were fixed and did not grow (avaṭṭhie kesamamsu romanahe) (8). From the time of his initiation, the Buddha is also stated to have his hairs fixed. This has been considered to be a miracle in both the traditions (9). Both are stated to have curly hairs(10).
The name of the horse on which the Buddha rode (while renouncing his home) was Kanthaka. From his neck upto the tall, the horse was 18 cubits in length.
The Buddha is said to have the physical strength equal to that of 1000, 00, 00, 000 elephants. In the Jaina tradition, a Cakravarti has the strength of 40,00,000 astapadas (an animal, believed to be extinct now, which was stronger than the lion), and a Tirthankara has infinite strength. Mahavira rid the Indra and other gods of doubt about himself by shaking Mount Meru by the touch of the first finger of his leg just at his birth. Though no such miracle is recorded about the Buddha, still, by dint of his great yogic powers, he is stated to have performed many a miracle.
BHAGAVAN MAHĀVĪRA
Of the current down-phase of the time-cycle, the double-bracing period (suşama-suşama) had gone out (long ago); even the bracing phase (suşama) had ended; and so did the bracing-non-bracing phase (suşama-duṣama); and a good part of the non-bracing -bracing phase (dusamasuşama) was also out. Of the last mentioned phase, only 75 years and 8 months still remained. At this time, in the fourth month of the summer season, during the eighth fortnight, on the sixth day of the bright half of the month of Aşadha, when the star Hastottara was in conjunction with the moon, Bhagavan Mahavira descended from the great vimana named Pundarika in the tenth heaven named Prāṇata on completion of his celestial life-span of 20 sāgaropamas.
