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being initiated Lord Namin tha wandered, while observing different kinds of penance as a mendicant, and then in the same garden under the Bora al tree, entered into a meditative state. There, on the 11th day of the dark fortnight of M ga ira in the fire of deep meditation, he burnt all the gh tikarmas and obtaining kevaladar ana and pure knowledge, became known as bh va Arihanta. As a keval he gave a religious sermon to a huge gathering of gods and humans and, establishing the four-fold order, became a T rthamkara.
His congregation had 17 ga as and 17 ga adharas, 1600 omniscient, 1207 telepaths, 1600 clairvoyants, 450 fourteen-p rvadh rs, 5000 vaikriya labdhidh rs, 1000 vadis, 20000 monks, 41000 female-monks, 170000 votaries and 348000 female votaries.
After nine months less than 2500 thousand years as a keval, giving religious discourse, the Lord, with one thousand monks, went to Sammeta ikhara and started a fast. After a month, in the end, in the last stage of deep meditation, stopping the influx of activities, on the tenth day of the dark fortnight of Vai kha under the A vin constellation, destroying all karmas, the Lord became omniscient and free. He was ten thousand years old.
Six lakh years after Lord Munisuvratan tha, Lord Namin tha attained liberation. The T rthamkara Namin tha and Namir jar i of Mithil are not one and the same but different. Because of the name and the city some writers consider them to be the same.
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