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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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KALPA SÛTRA.
unimpeded, complete, and perfect. But in Svâti the Venerable One obtained final liberation. (1)
End of the First Lecture ?
In that period, in that age the Venerable Ascetic Mahâvîra, having on the sixth day of the fourth month of summer, in the eighth fortnight, the light (fortnight) of Ashâdha, descended from the great Vimâna, the all-victorious and all-prosperous Pushpottara, which is like the lotus amongst the best things, where he had lived for twenty Sâgaropamas till the termination of his allotted length of life, of his (divine nature, and of his existence (among gods); here in the continent of Gambadvipa, in Bharatavarsha,—when of this Avasarpini era the Sushamasushamâ, the Sushamâ, and Sushamaduhshama periods, and the greater part of the Duhshamasushamâ period (containing a Kodầkodis of Sâgaropamas, less fortytwo thousand years) had elapsed, and only seventytwo years, eight and a half months were left, after twenty-one Tîrthakaras of the race of Ikshvâku and of the Kâsyapa gotra, and two of the race of Hari and of the Gautama gotra, on the whole twentythree Tîrthakaras had appeared,—the Venerable Ascetic Mahâvîra, the last of the Tirthakaras, took the form of an embryo in the womb of Devânandâ, of the Galandharayana gotra, the wife of the Brâhmana Rishabhadatta, of the gotra of Kodala, in the
1 Cf. Âkârânga Sûtra II, 15, $ 1.
· Vakanâ. These vâkanâs are the parts into which the Kalpa Satra is generally divided by some commentators. I have adopted the distribution of Samayasundara.
S A koti of kotis or 100,000,000,000,000.
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