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was standing quietly in meditation. From the spiritual lustre spreading forth from his face, from the marks on his person, and from various other signs, he concluded that he was surely the last Tirthankara. He forgot all his mental worries and sorrows as soon as he cast one devotional glance upon the Lord. He bowed down before the Lord very humbly, but soon came to know that he was practising a vow. He desired that Lord Mahavira should take his food at his house on the completion of his penance. With this pious hope in his heart, he used to come to the Lord every day continually for four months. When the penance was over, he waited for the arrival of the Lord at his house. But Fate deceived him apparently, for the Lord, instead of visiting his house went to the house of Purna Bhadra, a wealthy man of that city. Although Jinadatta did not feel jealous at this, still he began to curse his own Fate, and tried to console himself in variou ; ways. When Lord Mahavira reached the house of Purna Bhadra, he was not received warmly although the Lotd himself was quite indifferent to honour and praise in this world as well as in the next, but people did not like this impertinence of Purna Bhadra. He ordered his maid-servant to give some food and water to the Lord and the maid-servant obeyed him. She brought some boiled Udada grains in a wooden pot, and gave it to him. The gods then blew celestial trumpets in the sky, rained five kinds of precious stones over Purna Bhadra's house, and praised him in all the directions for his charity. The neighbourers condemned as well as praised the Fate of purna Bhadra. They condemned him because he had not given him good and sufficient food and water, and praised him because Lord Mahavira came to his house of
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