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Lord Mahavira otherwise, pure, not impure, which has tife, but not non-life, that too offered, not unoffered, to wash and clean teeth, hands, feet, bowls, etc., and to drink, but not to bathe.
Amvada accepts water as much as one Magadha Adhaka that too flowing, till offered to bathe, but not to wash, clean teeth, hands, feet, etc., nor to drink. Amvada does not court the company of the heretics nor worships their gods or their images, but worships only the Arihantas and their images.
Gautama : Bhante! Amvada Parivrajaka, when he passes away, where will he go, where will he be reborn?
Mahâvîra : Gautama! Amvada Parivrajaka will live like a monk in the Sramana order for many many years, practising vows, controls and restraints desisting from attachment, etc., renouncing, practising pratikramana and fasts. Then he will undertake a fast for a month, wholly concentrate in self, pass through sixty meal-time without intake, recall his lapses, recede from them, be in complete trance, and pass away at a certain point in eternal time and be born as a celestial being in Brahmaloka Kalpa. There, in that heaven, many a god live as long as ten sagaropamas, and Amvada will have a similar length of stay.
Gautama : Bhante! When, after having lived there for the stated time, his stay there comes to an end and he descends, where will he go and where will he be reborn?
Mahâvîra : Gautama! In Mahâvideha, there are various lines which are prosperous, dignified and famous. They possess many mansions, couches and cushions, vehicles and carriers. They have no dearth of treasures and bullion. They make effective application of the means of earning more and more wealth. They prepare food and drink in such a huge quantity that after many are fed, the remnant is so profuse that many more may be fed. In that land, there is no dearth of valets and maids. They are rich in their possession of cattle wealth. He will be born in one of these lines.
As soon as the boy enters into the mother's womb, his parents will be fully devoted to religion. Then on the completion of full nine months and seven and a half day-nights, till will be born a boy as graceful as the moon, dear and with a delightgiving look.
Then on the first day after his birth, his parents will fulfil
