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of things which were sweet, liquid, tasteful, fatty, hungerstimulating and light. She had heard from others and also read in books that the goodness of the character of a child depends upon his mother, therefore, she tried her best to conduct herself in the best possible way.
The mothers should learn how to conduct themselves during the period of pregnancy from the life of queen Trishala. But they should also know that mothers alone are responsible for making or maring the characters of their children. It is they who make their children brave, charitable, honourable, wealthy, learned, righteous, and desirous of attaining salvation, and it is they who make them poor, sick, lame, crippled, and leprous.
USE OF AVDHI-JANANA BY LORD MAHAVIRA IN THE WOMB OF HIS MOTHER.
The early period of Lord Mahavira's embryonic stage was very pleasant for the parents. Afer some time, by means of his Avadhi-Jnana, Lord Mahavira learnt that his stirring in the womb caused a great uneasiness to his mother for lessening the pain of his mother, he stopped all the motions at once. But, if instead of lessening the pain of his mother, produced a contray effect on her heart. She began to think all sorts of rubbish and cursed her fate saying, "Either my embryo has been stolen by some one or it has died, or disappeared in the womb. One of these things is sure; had it not been so it could not have ceased to move. That is all due to my evil deeds. I must have commited some sinful act in my previous life, whose bitter fruit I have to taste now. I must have separated young ones of birds or beasts or little infants
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