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Jaina Acāra : Siddhanta aura Swarūpa
153 Nemicandra has given its twenty-eight kinds as follows :(1) Amosahi—This enables a hermit to cure a sick person by merely
touching him. Before touching the patient he must resolve in his mind that his mere touch will make him O.K. Vipposahi—Sweet smell issues forth from his faeces and urine by the mere touch of which a sick person is cured of his malady. Khelosahi—A patient is cured by the smearing of a patient with such hermit's phlegm, expectoration and spitting. Jallosahi---The dirt from such hermit's ear, mouth, nose, tongue and eyes, if applied to the body of a patient, cures him immediately. It is sweet-smelling. Savvosahi-Such hermit's body becomes medicinal. The body becomes nectar-like. Whomsoever he touches by any part of his body cures him completely. Sambhinnasrota—Such hermit becomes capable of seeing with his ears, smelling with his eyes etc. One sense-organ functions for others as well. Avadhi Such hermit has a clear cognition of subtle, distant and
separated things. It also imparts visual intuition. (8) Řjumati. Such hermit reads the minds of others residing at a
distance of no less than 36000000 miles. (9) Vipulamati—Such hermit knows even the subtle thoughts of
conscious beings residing in ‘adhai dvīpa. (10) Carana-Such hermit can go to and return from the sky. One way of
going up is with the help of things and the other by relevant knowledge. The first is accomplished by penances on every eighth day and the second by penances on every sixth day. The first is more powerful than the second. He can rotate round the entire Jambudvīpa twenty-one times in as little time as you take in batting your eyelids thrice, but the second one takes a much longer time, i.e.
he can rotate only thrice in as much time. (11) Asivişa-Such hermit's words become so poisonous that whatever
he speaks by way of a curse turns out to be true. (12) Kevalajnāna-Such hermit becomes omniscient. (13) Gañadhara-Such hermit is endowed with the capacity of being
appointed pontiff or the head of a large group of ascetics. (14) Pürvadhara-Such hermit acquires the knowledge of fourteen
earlier sacred books or at least the third conduct-treatise of nine · earlier sacred books.
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