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xxxiv) Even the manifested epidemics subside wherever
they go.
Harisatya Bhattacharya11 has given the following thirty four atishayas of the Tirthankaras:
i) From the moment of his birth, his body is perfectly pure; no stain, no sweating can ever be found on it.
ii) No excretions from his organs.
iii) The flesh and blood of his body are purely white.
iv) His words are always pleasing and beneficial to all the living beings.
v) His beauty is indescribable and incomparable.
vi) His body gives out sweet and fragrant smell.
vii) One thousand and eight marks of supreme beauty are seen on his body.
viii) He possesses great strength.
ix) His body is such that it cannot be cut.
x) His constitution is symmetrically built, when he attains omniscient knowledge.
xi) His body becomes shadowless.
xii) He takes food no more.
xiii) He is free from troubles.
xiv) His eyelids do not wink.
xv) He is free from injury.
xvi) Wherever the Tirthankara goes, famine disappears. xvii) People understand all sciences and arts by meditating on him.
xviii) His nails and hairs do not grow any further.
xix) The lord moves in the air.
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