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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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freit, he was given eight articles of possible valuable thing,
Page 32. aloe Ya etc. indicate the number of सागरोपमs during which the sons of काल and the grandsons of afore will stay in the heavens called ETEH, $AUT etc, respectively.
Page 34. 3 ANOTHERě, with four thousands of grafato gods. They are so called because they hold the same status as Indra. There is only a difference of names between arafax and 5. They can be roughly compared to modern ministers of the king, if we can compare and with the king. It should be noted in connection with this that amongst gods also there is a caste -sytem which ranges from Dewans (Arafa) upto the members of Untouchable clas; (called fasfemia).
Page 35. fazao silfur 371*11 gHù, cognizing (the whole of Jambu-Dwip) by his extensive 8afagra which is the third of the five knowledges namely afa, wa, saft, 49: qja, and 7%. Difference between afà and ya on one hand and safer, 47:qfa, and 97 on the other hand is this that the first two are partea because they are dependent on the sense-organs while the last three are obtainable without the medium of the sense-organs and therefore the last three are called . This difference, then, makes the first two knowleges in
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