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parents and kinsmen. The news spread in the city like wild fire. People explained the strength and courage of Vardhamana in a thousand ways. From this day, Vardhamana came to be known as Mahavira, i. e. 'A great Hero'.
EDUCATION OF PRINCE MAHAVIRA.
COMPOSITION OF JINENDRA GRAMMAR.
A match-stick contains fire within itself; it does not require any more fire from outside. Rub it and you will get it. One thing, however should be remembered in this connection: the match-stick cannot produce fire until and unless it is already tipped with a composition of sulphur and other inflammable substances. We do not say that some other two things when rubbed together cannot produce fire. They do, but they require a vigorous rubbing in which the smaller and weaker stick or thing is sure to break or be destroyed before catching fire. This example will suffice to show that prince Mahavira had accumulated a vast treasure of knowledge by way of study during his previous lives. It was this effect of learning that he was born with Avadhijnana and now, when he became old enough to go to school, he was saturated with that knowledge. He simply required a 'kindling of his memory, a rubbing of the match stick against some thing. In support of our statement, we would like the reader to study the minds of some children of a school or a family and know for himself how different they are from one another. There is a boy, who learns a thing as soon as it is taught. Not only does he learn it but he also acts upto it and that too so very cleverly that even the
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