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sionate world and adopts the life of homeless recluse. The celestial devas celebrate the Diksha Kalyanaka Mahotsava Celebrations.
iv) Omniscience (Kevala Kalyanaka) : The Tirthankara destroys the four ghati karmas and attains pure knowledge and becomes omniscient. The heavenly devas celebrate the Kevala Kalyanaka Mahotsava and create the Samavasarana, the religious assembly, where beings (potential divine) such as devas, humans including chaturvidha sangha, animals and their kings and queens have equal access to the divine Tirthankara and equal opportunity to become divine themselves. 166
v) Nirvana Kalyanaka : This Kalyanaka is celebrated by the devas when Tirthankara destroys four aghati karmas and attains immortal liberated state of the Siddha.167 B. Atisho"as :
It means the attributes which are not possessed ordinarily by the humans. It is only the Tirthankara who possesses four atishayas. 168
i) Apayapagama : This consists in the unusual fact that no phenomena, however menacing, can injure him in any way.
ii) Jnana Atishaya : This refers to the omniscient power.
iii) Puja Atishaya : All the beings however high placed they may be, like Indras etc., respect and pay obeisance to him.
iv) Vachana Atishaya : His teachings are pleasant, useful and intelligible to all without the aid of interpreter. C. Vachana Atishaya
i) His language obeys the rules and regulation or grammar and is respectful, appealing to everyone.
ii) The sound is clear and audible.
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