Jain Journal 1973 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 40

APRIL, 1973
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At that time, in that period, Sramana Bhagavan Mahavira lived for thirty years, as a householder slightly more than twelve years as a monk, and slightly more than thirty years as an omniscient person, in all fortytwo years in the order of monks, and seventytwo years in this world ; after which, on the exhaustion of his vedaniya karma (which is to be gone through in this world), on the exhaustion of his life-span, name and lineage, in the course of this descension phase, when many years of the non-bracing bracing phase had rolled down, when there remained three years and eight and half months to complete it, in the very heart of Pava, at the hall of writers of king Hastipalaka, all alone and without a second person, observing a vow of taking food, devoid of water, once every third day, at the time when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Svati, in the hour of day break, seated in lotus posture (padmāsana) reciting fiftyfive courses of study (of the Vipāka Sūtra) on the outcome of karma, and explaining thirty six inadequately explained courses of study (from the Uttarādhyayana Sūtra), as he was concentrating on the principal chapter, he passed away, went beyond the bounds of karma, was uplifted after having left the world, cut.asunder the tie of birth-oldage-death, and became perfected, enlightened and liberated, the maker of the end, and the terminttor of all misery. 147