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brother's mistake. After this incident the Lord thought, “I must destroy many of my karmasnow. Keeping on finding some known person, everywhere, will delay destruction of my karmas. Hence I must wander in An rya (not knowledgeable) and unknown places.' Thinking thus, he decided to go to L dha (R dha) country, considered as An rya where no monk or ascetic would even imagine going. There were two divisions of Lādha country - north and south, or Vajra and ubhra. The river Ajaya used to flow in between. rya Sudharm's cr mga S tra describes, the fearsome, thrilling calamities there as follows:
In Lādha country, there were no suitable places to stay for the Lord. Even tasteless, minimal food used to come about with great difficulty. Dogs would come running from afar to bite, but there were none to stop them. In fact, people would mostly provoke them further. All those of an insensitive attitude used to walk about holding sticks. However, the Lord used to wander uninhibited. He used to be polite even towards the mean people. His intention was to destroy karmas - he used to gladly bear with people's abuses and obstacles in the path, and stay happy. He would not let any violent thought enter his mind for anyone. Sometimes he would have to spend nights in frightful forests. Sometimes people would not let him enter into villages and force him to move on. Without reason they would attack him and laugh at him and would give him many kinds of troubles, like throwing sand on him, lift him and throw him to the ground like a ball and would cause injury to his body parts. What one means to say is that the Lord was thus given many kinds of unbearable and unimaginable troubles, which he faced peacefully, being steady in spiritual path of restraint. Staying in the An rya region, bearing with many calamities, he destroyed much karma. He was re-entering the An rya region after leaving the rya country when he met two thieves on the borders who were going to steal in the non-An rya region. Considering it ominous to see him on the way, they attacked him with their weapons. Indra himself appeared, saved him, and chased away the thieves. Reaching the rya region the Lord reached the Malaya country and stayed during that year's monsoons in Bhaddila city. Being meditative in different postures, the Lord observed four months of fast and on completion of the rainy season, breaking his fast outside the city, he moved towards 'Kadal Sam gama' and 'Jamb Samda'.
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