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xviii) Showering of water flowers or aquatic flowers and flowers grown on land till the level of knees.
xix) Non existence of bad or disagreeable or unpleasant, smell, taste, touch, sound and shape.
xx) Manifestation of pleasant smell, taste, touch, sound colour or appearance.
xxi) While preaching dharma, a pleasing and spreading sound up to one yojana (eight miles) is produced.
xxii) His preaching and teachings are in Ardha-magadhi language.
xxiii) This Ardha-magadhi language is understood by all people both well-versed and illiterate, even by birds, animals, creatures, reptiles like snake with a beneficial and agreeable sense.
xxiv) Even the old rivals, say humans, devas, asuras, devils, demons, animals, birds and even reptiles sit near him forgetting the enmity and listen to his preaching with agreeable sense.
xxv) Even other commentators, scholars and vidvans praise him.
xxvi) Commentators forget to comment on him.
xxvii) Wherever the Tirthankaras go, those places experience normal weather i.e. there is neither flood nor (famine) drought, there is equal cycling of all seasons.
xxviii) Epidemics like cholera and plague vanish. xxix) Soldiers in their own kingdom do not harm them.
xxx) And they are not afraid of even the soldiers of their rival kings.
xxxi) There is no excess of rain i.e. flood. xxxii) Nor there is less rain i.e. drought or famine.
xxxiii) There is no scarcity of food, water shelter i.e. people lead a prosperous life.
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