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Praying to the unrestrained Ones: Usually the ones practicing total self-restraintare worthy of veneration. But in the timeperiod of the ninth T rthamkara Suvidhin tha in the absence of monks and female-monks the unrestrained were offered prayers to. This is an extraordinary event.
Many things mentioned in Indian literature, such as transfer of a fetus, are considered unbelievable but in the scientific age ever new discoveries have shown these things in reality. An extraordinary event has been published in ‘I vana Vij na' (vol. 43) brought out by the Gujarat Vernaculara Society that an American doctor had to operate upon a pregnant woman's stomach. So that doctor first tore open the stomach of a pregnant goat and placed the fetus in her womb in a box powered by electricity and placed the woman's fetus into the womb of the goat. After finishing the surgery of the woman, he removed the fetus from the goat, placed it again in the woman's womb, and replaced the goat's fetus back in its womb. Later both the lamb and the human child the goat and the woman gave birth to were healthy and natural siblings.
Entry into Tri al 's womb
When Hari aigame transferred Mah v ra's soul from Dev nand 's womb to that of Tri al 's with the permission of Indra, Dev nand saw the fourteen dreams exiting from her mouth. She woke up and started to cry saying someone has stolen her womb. At the same time on the night of the thirteenth day of the A vina month with moon, being conjunct with Uttar f lgun constellation Tri la saw the fourteen auspicious dreams. The dream interpreters said – “such dreams are only seen by the mothers of T rthamkara and cakravart s. Hence queen Tri al shall beget a fortunate son who will either be a T rthamkara or a cakravart when he grows up." King Siddh rtha and queen Tri al were very happy to hear these words. Queen Tri al started taking care of her womb and completed her pregnancy period happily.
Entry into the womb and birth
Through his avadhij na (clairvoyance), the Lord saw that his mother is experiencing pain with his turning around in the womb, hence he stopped moving which made Tri al worried and thought – “perhaps my child has withered in the womb." With this news Tri al , the king and their
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