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them – “Who are you?” They replied – “We are rama a nirgranthas of the Pr van tha tradition.” To this, Go laka said - "Strange! You people are wearing these colourful robes, and have vessels and yet you call yourselves nirgranthas. The true nirgrantha is my teacher, who is the epitome of sacrifice and penance. The Pr va tradition monks said – “Just like you your c rya too must have accepted nakedness.” To this an angry Go laka retorted - "You people criticise my teacher; your rest house will burn to ashes." Go laka returned to Campaka garden and told the Lord everything. Siddh rtha Deva said – “Go laka! Those are Pr van tha tradition's disciple monks. Glory of monks' penance does not consist in cursing or burning down resting places."
c rya Muni Candra went into meditation standing outside the monastery. At midnight, the potter K panaya returned to his home after getting drunk with his friends and thinking the meditative monk to be a thief, strangled him with both his hands. Despite unbearable pain, the monk maintained calm. Being in deep meditation with a sense of equanimity, he attained omniscience and nirva. The gods showered flowers expressing the glory of omniscience. Seeing the arrival of gods, Go laka said to the Lord – “It looks like their resting place is burning." Siddh rtha Deva said – “No, crya Muni Candra has attained omniscience; hence gods are expressing its glory.” Go laka woke the disciples of Muni Candra up. Believing their crya to be dead they began to repent. Referring to this incident c rya Hemacandra writes that Muni Candra at that time attained clairvoyance and he went to heaven.
After leaving Kum raka, the Lord arrived near Cor ka. The place was infested with the activities of thief and robbers. So the guards were very attentive and so wanted to know his introduction, the Lord remained silent because of his vow. The guards thought he was some thief or spy, so capturing him they gave him all kinds of pain. When the word reached the soothsayer Utpala's sisters, Som and Jayant , they came there and released the Lord. Realising the Lord's identity, the guards begged for forgiveness for their mistake. From there the Lord left for P hacamp and spent his fourth rainy season halt there. In this time he observed four months of fast and went into meditation in different forms in k yotsarga. After completing his penance, he broke his fast at a place outside Camp.
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