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Lord Mahâvîra
practice, abstraction from the love of home and country, power, indifference to every object, readiness to obey, patience, freedom from desire, self-restraint, joy, truth, mercy and perfection in austerity. In the second half of the thirteenth year, when half a month had elapsed in the summer season, in the second month of summer, the month Vais'akha, in the fourth demilunation, the tenth day after the full moon, when the shadow was going eastward, and one watch remained on the day called Savita, and the Muhurta called Vijaya, at the town of Trimbhikagrama, outside the town, at a river called Rituvalika, at a moderate distance from the Yaksa temple, called Vairyavartta, in the field of a husbandman named Sama, under a Sal tree, sitting in a crouching posture as one does in milking a cow, while inflaming his mind with devotion on the heated earth, and after the fast of six meals without the use of water, under the constellation Uttara Phalguni, at the time of a fortunate lunar conjunction, while he was engaged in abstract meditation, he obtained infinite, incomparable, indestructible, unclouded, universal, perfect, certain supreme intelligence and perception. Thereupon the adorabel ascetic hero having become an Arhat (worthy of divine hounours), a Jina (a conqueror of the passions), a man of established wisdom, omniscient, all-percipient, he knew and saw all the qualities of the three worlds inhabited by gods, men and demons, being perfectly acquainted with all the comings and goings, staying and movements of all living creatures, in all worlds, as well as with their mental congitations, lawful and unlawful enjoyments and their open and concealed actions; being an Arhat, (one from whom nothing is concealed), and the undisguised object of worship to all beings. At that time, then, having obtained a perfect knowledge and perception of all the qualities and conditions of all living creatures, in all the world, characterized by mental, vocal, or bodily attributes, he continued ever after to enjoy the same.
At this time the adorable ascetic Mahâvîra came to the town Asthigrama, and spent there the first rest of the rainy season. Proceeding then to Champa and Prishtachampa he there spent three, at Vanijyagrama near Vaisali he spent twelve, and in the village of Nalanda near Rajagriha fourteen, six at Mithila, two at Bhadrika, one at Alambhika, one at S'ravasti, one at Panitabhumi, and the last of the rainy season he spent at Papa, where reigned
