Mahavira His Life And Teachings

Author(s): Saraswati Raghavachari
Publisher: Jain Sastu Sahitya

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family began to multiply many - fold. Hidden traesures and mines of precious metals and precious stones were discovered in the different parts of the kingdom. Great prosperity was experienced by the high and the low throughout the land of Kundalpura.
Thus when one and all of the constellations had assumed the best aspects, Trisila painlessly gave birth to the healthy child whom she had borne for nine months and seven and a half days. It was on the 13th day of the bright fortnight of the month of CHAITRA.
CHAPTER VI Universal Rejoicings
VI We ring the bells
and we raise the strain We hang up garlands everywhere And bid the tapers twinkle fair, And feast and frolic -
For there has been a great birth. The news of the birth spread like wild fire across the length and breadth of Kundalpura.
The people of Kundalpura ( Kshatriya Kund) celebrated the birth of the prince with all the pomp