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GOMMATASARA.
continuity of Jain tradition is curiously evident in the above account. Before the last Tirthankara of the present cycle attained liberation, his teaching was already implanted in a soul so firmly that when the proper time comes it should fructify as exactly the same teaching from the mouth of the first Tirthankara of the next cycle. Lord Mahávíra attained liberation 3 years and 8 months before the expiry of the 4th Aeon of the present cycle. The present or the 5th aeon is 21,000 years long, the next one the sixth and the last of the present cycle is also of 21,000 years' duration. The next cycle retraces the course of the present cycle, so that its first two Aeons will be 21,000 years each. And after nearly 84,000 years after Lord Mahávíra's liberation the soul of Raja Shrenika which has literally been under the earth for the whole of this long length of darkness will be reborn and blossom forth as Padma Nábha, the propounder afresh of Eternal Truth.
वयणेहिं विदूहिं वि इंदियभय आणएहिं रूवेहिं ।
बीभच्छ गंवाहिय तेलोक्केणवि ण चालेज्जो ॥ ६४७ ॥ " वचनैरपि हेतुभिरपि इन्द्रियभयानीतै रूपैः ।
वीभत्स्यजुगुप्साभिश्च त्रैलोक्येनापि न चाल्यः ॥ ६४७ ॥
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647. (Destructive right belief) is never shaken by words, by arguments, by forms fearful to the senses, or by terror and disgust or by (all things in the) three worlds.
दंसणमोहवण पवगो कम्मभूमिजादो हु ।
मणुसो केवलिमूले विगो होदि सव्वत्थ ॥ ६४८ ॥ दर्शन मोहक्षपणाप्रस्थापकः कर्मभूमिजातो हि । मनुष्यः केवलिमूले निष्ठापको भवति सर्वत्र ॥ ६४८ ॥
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648. The initiator (Prasthápaka) of the destruction of right-belief-deluding-Karma (Darshana Moha, and of the 4 error-feeding-passion is) certainly a man born in the work-region (Karma bhúmi), (who begins it) at the feet of an omniscient (or of a saint with full scriptural knowledge), and (he would be its) accomplisher (Nishthápaka) in all (conditions of existence).
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