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("Oh Lord!" addressing thus, Muni Goutam saluted and asked Mahavir - "How is it that this lady's body is shivering with excitement and milk is oozing out of her breasts and she is standing staring continuosly at you")
गोथमाइ ! समणे भगवं महावीर भगवं गोयम एवं वयासी - एवं खलु गोयमा! देवाणंदा माहणी ममं अम्मगा, अहणं देवानंदाए माहाणीए अत्तए तरणं सा देवाणंदा माहणी तेण पुव्व पुत्त सिणेहरागेणं आगयपण्हया जाव समूस वियरोम कूवा मम अणिमिसाए दिट्ठीए पेहमाणी पेहमाणी चिट्ठइ । तएण समणे भगवं महावीर उसभदत्तस्स माहाणस्स देवाणदाए माहणीए तीसे च महतिमहालियाए इसिपरिसाए जाव परिसा पडिगया।
(Lord Mahavir answered-"Goutam, she is my own mother. I was born of her. That is why because of Love and excitement of seeing her son after long long time her body is shivering and milk is oozing out of her breasts." The Lord then addressed the gathering including Rishabhdutta and Devananda and after hearing his sermon the gathering dispersed.)
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The above mentioned narration, in my view, conclusively show that Devananda herself had given birth to Mahavir. Such an ecstatic excitement at seeing her son after a long time and in such an enlightened state could only emerge in a lady who had experienced the pangs of giving birth to him. Devananda was not an enlightened one and she or anybody else could not have knowledge of the so called transfer of embryo from her womb on the 83rd day of her pregnancy. Lord Mahavir while answering Goutam's querry does not speak either about the so called transfer. The Lord on the contrary asserts in clearest terms that he was born of her. It would be traversity of facts if we in our zeal to upgrade the perentage from the so called low caste of Brahmin to the so called upper caste of Khsatriyas and stick to a myth created with bias against Brahmins and most probably to show one-up-manship to the Brahmical myths. The husk should be sorted out of Rice. The ancient scriptures thus need to be interpreted rationally and honestly with a visionary's perception to straighten the historical records.
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