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KALPA SÚTRA. unimpeded, complete, and perfect. But in Svâti the Venerable One obtained final liberation. (1)
End of the First Lecture 2.
In that period, in that age the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira, having on the sixth day of the fourth month of summer, in the eighth fortnight, the light (fortnight) of Ashâdha, descended from the great Vimana, the all-victorious and all-prosperous Pushpottara, which is like the lotus amongst the best things, where he had lived for twenty Sâgaropamas till the termination of his allotted length of life, of his (divine nature, and of his existence (among gods); here in the continent of Gambadvipa, in Bharatavarsha,—when of this Avasarpint era the Sushamasushamà, the Sushama, and Sushamaduhshama periods, and the greater part of the Duhshamasushamâ period (containing a Kodakodi 8 of Sagaropamas, less fortytwo thousand years) had elapsed, and only seventytwo years, eight and a half months were left, after twenty-one Tirthakaras of the race of Ikshvaku and of the Kasyapa gotra, and two of the race of Hari and of the Gautama gotra, on the whole twentythree Tirthakaras had appeared,—the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira, the last of the Tirthakaras, took the form of an embryo in the womb of Devånanda, of the Galandhara yana gotra, the wife of the Brâhmana Rishabhadatta, of the gotra of Kodala, in the
1 Cf. Âkârânga Sätra II, 15, $ 1.
· Våkana. These vâkanâs are the parts into which the Kalpa Sūtra is generally divided by some commentators. I have adopted the distribution of Samayasundara.
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