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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
64. The Last Five Upãngas (III. Lect. 1.
82. At that time and at that period the Arihanta ( the Prophet) Părs'wanitha, (the twenty third Tirthankara of the Jains ), who was greatly honoured by the people,* the first propounder of the doctrine (every thing else is to be described here exactly as in the case of Mahăvira, down to ) possessed of a height of nine cubits, with sixteen thousand monks and thirty eight thousand nuns accompanying him ( and so forth, down to ), arrived at a Jain temple known as Kotthaa. The assembly went out to hear him.
83. T'hen that householder · Angal getting intelligence about this thing, and being, therefore, greatly delighted (he is to be described here exactly as the householder Kattiya in the Bhagavati Sūtra, down to ) went out to hear him and waited upon him. And having heard the sermon (and so forth ) with this addition : "O you beloved
* Text, Purisãdã niya : It is a karın a-prakriti by the virtue of which a person gets noblo renown which spreads all over the world and he is honoured and well-spoken of by all the people of the world. Lord Pårs'wanātha was possessed of this rare kurina-prakriti in its entire glory to a comparatively very very high degree as compared with other Tirthankaras. Henco it. was that Lord Pars'wanã tha was, and is, so fainous in the world.
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