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KALPA SÚTRA.
out being perfect Jinas*, and of these fourteen were superior to the rest. He had a band of thirteen hundred disciples, possessed of inductive knowledge, seven hundred possessed of certain knowledge, seven hundred possessed of the power of assuming a different form, and though not gods had the power of gods; five hundred of large intellect, acquainted with all the thoughts and feelings of all sentient beings, in two and a half continents and two seast; a company of. four hundred disputants that had never been overcome in any assembly of gods, asurs, or men. He had seven hundred male disciples, who on dying obtained perfect liberation, and fourteen female. He had two hundred and fifty who obtained that super-celestial mansion, from which beings only once descend to mortal birth before obtaining liberation. The venerable ascetic hero instituted two peculiar world-vanquishing periods, one unlimited except by the Yuga, and the other embracing a limited time. The former extended to three disciples in succession, and the latter continued
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* The original is अजिणाएं जिएमंकासं मव्वाखरसन्निवादूणं in Sanskrit अजिनापि जिनसदृशाः सर्वाक्षर -
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समूहज्ञातारः
Namely in Jambudvipa, Dhátuki Khanda and Urdha Pushkar, and the salt and fresh-water sea, all our earth.
