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Following his attainment of pure knowledge, wandering about, the Lord reached Dv rik . The Vasudeva Svayambh of the time also was present in the auspicious religious gathering (samava ara a). He accepted the dharma of self restraint and many men and women accepted the doctrine and the practice hearing the Lord's discourse. The Lord established the four-fold order and rendered meaningful the position of T rthamkara.
His congregation had Mandara etc 56 ga as and Ga adharas, 5500 omniscient, 5500 telepaths, 4800 clairvoyants, 1100 Fourteenprvadh rs, 9000 vaikriyalabdhidh rs, 3200 v ds, 68000 monks, 100800 female-monks, 208000 votaries and 424000 female-votaries.
The 3" Prati Vasudeva of that era, Meraka, Vasudeva Svayambh and Baladeva Bhadra were contemporaries of Lord Vimalan tha. During His tenure the Jain religion had influenced ordinary people as well as leaders. Vasudeva Svayambh and Baladeva Bhadra accepted samyaktva (right path) on hearing Lord's discourse. After Svayambh 's death, Bhadra became a monk and after living for 65 lakh years, attained liberation in the end.
Lord Vimalan tha preached the message of truthful path among people as an omniscient for 2 years less than 15 lakh years. Sensing the end of his life-span he, along with 600 monks, observed a month's fast and destroying non obscuring karmas (agh tikarmas), attained liberation and nirva on the seventh day of the dark half of ādha under Revati constellation. He was aged 65 lakh years.
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