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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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KALPA SUTRA.
and returned to her own apartments, neither hasty nor trembling, with a quick and even gait like that of the royal swan. (88)
From that moment in which the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira was brought into the family of the Gñâtris, many demons1 in Vaisramana's service, belonging to the animal world, brought, on Sakra's command, to the palace of king Siddhartha, old and ancient treasures, of which the owners, deponers, and families to whom they originally belonged were dead and extinct, and which were hidden in villages, or mines, or scot-free towns, or towns with earth walls, or towns with low walls, or isolated towns, or towns accessible by land and water, or towns accessible either by land or by water only, or in natural strongholds, or in halting-places for processions or for caravans, in triangular places, or in places where three or four roads meet, or in courtyards, or squares, or high roads, or on the site of villages or towns, or in drains of villages or towns, or in bazaars, or temples, or assembling halls, or wells, or parks, or gardens, or woods, or groves, or burying-places, or empty houses, or mountain caves, or hermits' cells, or secret places between walls, or in houses on an elevation, or houses for audience, or palaces. (89)
In the night in which the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira was brought into the family of the Gñâtris their silver increased, their gold increased; their riches, corn, majesty, and kingdom increased; their army, train, treasure, storehouse, town, seraglio, subjects, and glory increased; their real valuable property, as riches, gold, precious stones, jewels,
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Gambhaya Grimbhaka; what they are is not said in the
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