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the increase; aterfoafor, i. e., aqafquitates is one in which these qualities are on the decrease. 76 दहविहविडवि, the ten कल्पवृक्षs, enumerated in the foot-notes.
9. 3a पडिसुद्द, the first कुलकर of the Jain mythology. 4a अमममियाउ, having life of the length of an a, a large number. The other s or s mentioned in 9 and 10 are सम्मद, खेमंकर, मंबर, सीमंकर, सीमंधर, विमला चक्रभ ( चक्षुष्मान् ), जसस्सि, अहिचंद, चंदाह, मरुदेव, पसेणइ and नाहि ( नाभि ).
11. 1 The first we explained to the world, i. e., discovered for the first time, the functions of the sun and the moon who were not noticed by the people upto this time because the world was full of the light supplied by the rs. The second discovered the stars and planets. Similarly each contributed something towards the human civilization. The last g i. e. tf, discovered the method of cutting the of children, and also discovered clouds which, by rain, rendered the earth full of various crops so that nobody felt the absence of the s. He also discovered fire, the art of cooking and weaving for the benefit of humanity.
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17. 56 सुयरद्द सुरवध नियमणि तइयहं Indra, on learning that a तीर्थंकर is to be born at a particular place, orders Dhapaya, i. e. Kubera, to make the city beautiful and rich, so that it becomes fit for the birth of a Jina.
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19. la-Hemacandra in his grammar under IV. 422 gives a substitute for af. I do not think that always means f; in fact the usual sense of seems to be fa which sense suits the context here as well as elsewhere. The marginal notes in Mss. here render it as a but I do not think it to be correct.
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[The birth of a Jina in Jain works is described in such a monotonous way that we are often tempted to think that we are in the field of mythology rather than that of history. When the parents of a Jina are determined, Indra orders Kubera to make the town of his parents beautiful and fit to be worthy of such event. The Jina in the immediately preceding birth is born in heaven. Six months before his period of life in heaven is to end, Indra sends six godd
esses, faft, feft, fafe, aifa, fat, and the lady where the Jina is to be born. Jina and wait upon her as her maids. (according to the Svetämbara tradition, of the night, She sees her husband the next morning and tells him that she saw, the previous night, sixteen dreams. The husband then explains to her the
to the earth to purify the womb of They then come to the mother of the The mother then sees sixteen objects fourteen) in a dream towards the end
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