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self with various kinds of jewels and ornaments. When he saw the two Brahamanas coming towards him, he said, “what brings you here, ?" " We want to see your beauty. We have been hearing of it for a long time; and now we have travelled over so long a distance simply to see you with our own eyes ", they said. This made Sanatkumara all the more proud of his physical charms. He said, “I am yet unadorned; see me when I have worn my ornaments.” So he vanished into the room, dressed himself, and returning to the Brahamanas said, “Well, now you may see how beautiful I am ". The Brahamanas cast a glance over his body and said, "Now, your Majesty does not look so beautiful as before”. The Chakravartin was very much astonished at this strange remark of the old Brahamanas. He said, “Why, Sirs? what makes you say like that? I think my beauty is far enhanced now”. The Brahamanas, then, asked him to spit into his own spittoon and observe the spittle. Sanatkumara did as he was told and found innumerable germs moving in the saliva. No sooner did he realise this fact than he made up his mind to renounce the world. He was convinced that this body is an abode of diseases and this world is transitory. He vowed to lead a pious life, and after renouncing his throne, he became an ascetic. He, now, began to practise penances, and when all his Karmans were thus exhausted, he was crowned with success in the end, he attained Liberation.
Three Sagaropamas minus three quarters of a Palyopama ( a period of time ) after the Fifteenth Tirthankara's deliverance from the coil of mortality, Shri Shanti Nathaji, the sixteenth Tirthankara, was born on the thirteenth Full Moon day of Jyestha. His parents were king and queen of
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