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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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3 cribed here exactly as Kesi,* down to) being surrounded by five hundred monks in successive order, while wandering on his religious journeys, came to the city of Råyagiha ( the rest is to be supplied here, down to ) and having accepted a proper place for residence, passed his time in practising asceticism (and so forth). The assembly went out to hear him. The law was preached. The assembly returned.
3. At that time and at that period the houseless monk named Jambû, the disciple of the houseless monk the venerable SuhaIma (Sk. Sudharma), who was possessed of a symmatrical and well-built body (the rest is to be supplied here, down to) holding contracted (in his physical body) the vast mass of the flash (as a reward of his penance), lived in the vicinity of the reverend houseless monk Suhamma with his knees up (and so forth). Then that Jambî with a desire to know (and so forth, down to) waiting upon him spoke thus: “Venerable Sir, what has been expounded as the purport of the Upangas (ie. the last five Upingas together called Nirayivaliło) by the Ascetic, Lord Mahãvira,
• Kosi was a disciple of Lord Pärsh wanātha, the 23rd Tirthankara of the Jains.
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