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Lord Nemin tha removed all his adornments, which were donated by Indra to K a. Thus, staying as a householder for 300 years, the Lord removed five fistfuls of hair, observing a fast for six days and on the sixth day of the bright fortnight of rava a month with the moon being conjunct with the constellation Citr. akra took the Lord's hair in his upper cloth and immersed them in the milk ocean. Then the Lord recited the resolve to sacrifice all, with the Siddhas as witness. The Lord took initiation with thousand men. As soon as he took initiation, he gained telepathy (manah paryavaj na), the fourth knowledge type. The next day, the Lord broke his fast with rice pudding at the house of a Brahmin Varadatta in a cattle-shed. The divine words. "aho d nam, aho d nam" resounded in the sky and the gods showered the five auspicious things. Thereafter, with a resolve to destroy his obscuring karmas, the Lord started severe penance and restraint and went wandering elsewhere.
Omniscience and religious discourse (Samava ara a)
After becoming a mendicant, after observing various kinds of austerities for 54 days, the Lord arrived at Ujjayantagiri-Revatagiri and observing a fast there went into deep meditation. In one night, in the fire of the second stage of deep meditation, destroying the four obscuring karmas like deluding, intuition obscuring, knowledge obscuring etc, forenoon of the new moon day of the dark fortnight of vina, under the Citr constellation, he attained pure intuition and omniscience. The moment the Lord attained omniscience, the gods created the samava ara a on the Raivataka Mountain. K a reached with all the materials of arddhacakr astride his best elephant, along with the ten 'da rho', mothers, kith and kin to attend the samava ara aof Lord Nemin tha. Lord Ari anemi (Nemin tha) was seated on a transparent throne with the eight auspicious emblems(pratih ryas). The Lord's face was visible from all directions in the same manner. After circumambulating and invoking the Lord, everyone stay in their places. The Lord gave a sermon to all in the language they understood, which was like destroying the darkness of ignorance and throwing the light of knowledge.
Founding the T rtha
Listening to the knowledgeable sermon of the Lord, first a king named Varadatta immediately requested the Lord to be initiated at his feet. Lord
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