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The 9th Year as Keval
Completing the rainy season halt in Vai 1, the Lord came to ‘K kamd ', passing through Mithil , and stayed at Sahasr mra garden. On the news of the Lord's arrival, king Jita atru came to offer his service. The merchant Bhadr 's son, Dhanyakum ra, too, reached there. Listening to the Lord's sermon, he gave up his vast wealth and prosperity and took initiation. Accepting initiation, he took an oath in front of the Lord -“All my life I will wander observing fasts and shall only break my fast with food free from living beings.” This way, through severe penance he made his body emaciated. Dhanyakum ra's penance and austerities were so lofty that Lord Mah v ra praised him for being the one observing the most difficult penance among his 14,000 monks. In nine months of mendicancy, monk Dhanya completed his life observing a fast and became a god in the Sary rthasiddhi vim na. 'Sunak atrakum ra' too went to Sarv rthasiddhi in this manner after initiation. After leaving K kamd , the Lord, passing through Kampilapura and Pol sapura, arrived at Va iyagr ma. At Kampilapura, Ku dkaulika accepted the
r vakaconduct and 'Sadd lputra' in Pol sapur accepted the 12 vows. Leaving V ijyagr ma the Lord arrived ta Vai 1 and completed the rainy season halt there.
The 10th Year as Keval
After the rainy season, the Lord reached R jag ha through Magadha. There, Mah ataka g th patiaccepted the vows of a votary. An elder monk from P r va's tradition, too, came to the Lord's samava ara a; an getting clarifications for his doubts from the Lord, was very happy. He said Lord Mah v ra is omniscient. He accepted the five major vows (mah vratas) from the Lord. There, in reply to some questions of Rohaka monk, the Lord said, “The question of existence of the world, the other world, living-non-living, egg and hen their pre-post discussions is an immortal one (infinite regress). In fact, there is no normative order in these, as this is an eternal tradition. In the same way, the existence of all matter in the world is interdependent." Addressing Gautama's inquisitiveness the Lord said, “The conditions and arrangements of the world are of eight types. These are; air on the basis of sky, water on the basis of air, earth on water; living beings on earth, non-living beings on living beings, different forms of life on basis of karmas and modes of
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