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Mahāvira's Words by Walther Schubring
drawn. So have [monks) in endless number achieved perfection, [achieve perfection in the present time, (and in the future) others who are to come here [will] achieve perfection. 22. So*6 spoke he who possessed the highest knowledge and the highest view, the bearer of the highest knowledge and the highest view, the holy Nāya-descendent, the Lord, whom one calls the man from Vaiśāli—so I say.
$6 This supposed stanza 22 is in prose.
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