________________ 24 .. [ Safariand the savage tribes of Vajrabhumi, Suddhibhumi and Lat or Lar, the countries apparently of the Gonds. As he was thus wandering on his way, the time approached when perfect illumination was to be found. For, in the thirteenth year after his renunciation of the world and initiation as an ascetic, on the tenth day of the bright half of Vaishakha, as he was seated under the shade of a sal tree outside Jrimbhakagrama, on the north bank of the river Rijupalika-a place not very far from the Parshvanatha bills-as he sat there bene. ath the sacred tree, there dawned on him the light which he had been born into the world to disco. ver; there came to him, in that silent hour of deep meditation, the mighty awakening which made him the enlightened, the omniscient, the all. knowing, which told him of sorrow, of the cause of sorrow, cf the cure of sorrow, and of the path which leads beyond it. The bonds of Karma-the enemies to enlightenment, wisdom and salvationwere snapped like an old rope; and the Kevala Jnana-tbe only knowledge-knowledge which is full and complete, unimpeded and unobstructed, infinite and supreme-became his own. The last thirty years of his life Mahavira passed in teaching his religious system and organizing his order of ascetics. The scene of his labours is mostly along the Ganges, in the modern districts of Bihar and Allahabad. - In the towns
