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हजार श्रमणों की उत्कृष्ट श्रमण सम्पदा थी। अहंत अरिष्टनेमि के प्रार्या यक्षिणी प्रमुख चालीस हजार श्रमणियों की उत्कृष्ट प्रार्या सम्पदा थी। अहंतु अरिष्टनेमि के नन्द प्रमुख एक लाख उनहत्तर हजार श्रमणोपासकों की उत्कृष्ट श्रमणोपासक सम्पदा थी। अहंतु अरिष्टनेमि के महासुव्रता प्रमुख तीन लाख छत्तीस हजार श्रमणोपासिकाओं की उत्कृष्ट श्रमणोपासिका सम्पदा थी। अर्हत् अरिष्टनेमि के जिन नहीं किन्तु जिन के सदृश, सर्वाक्षर-सन्निपाती ऐसे चार सौ, चतुर्दश पूर्वधरों की यावत् उत्कृष्ट चौदह पूर्वधारियों की सम्पदा थी। अर्हत् अरिष्टनेमि के पन्द्रह सौ अवधिज्ञानी, पन्द्रह सौ केवलज्ञानी, पन्द्रह सौ वैश्यिलब्धिधारी, एक हजार । विपुलमती (मनपर्यवज्ञानी) और पाठ सौ वादियों की उत्कृष्ट सम्पदा थी। महंत अरिष्टनेमि के सोलह सौ श्रमण अनुत्तरोपपातिक विमान में गए, पन्द्रह सौ श्रमण सिद्ध हुए और तीन हजार श्रमणियां सिद्ध हुई।
He had an excellent congregation of fourty-four thousand nuns. Arya Yakşini was their chief. He had an excellent community of lay followers numbering a hundred and sixty-nine thousand. Nanda was their chief. He had an excellent community of women layfollowers numbering three hundred and thirty six thousand women. Mahāsuvrata was their chief. He had a group of four hundred followers who knew all the sacred Parva-treatises. These followers, though not Tirthankaras, were almost like Tirtharkaras. They knew every syllable of the canon and could expound it like Tirthankaras. He had a group of fifteen hundred followers who had attained avadhi-knowledge, and another fifteen hundreed who had attained kevala-knowledge. Another group of his followers, numbering fifteen hundred, had the power of occult transformation. He had a group of a thousand cxceedingly wise men, a group of eight hundred sophists, a group of sixteen hundred sages in their final life, and a group of fifteen hundred monks and three thousand nuns who had attained perfection,
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