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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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$$ 92-93.) Nirayávaliyao. becoming enlightened he accepted the twelvefold duty of a Shravaka * and then returned.
92. Then at a certain time that Lord Pārs'wa went away from the Ambasă la vaņa, and from the city of Văņãrasi, and having done so he moved outside that region. Then that Brahmin Somila, at a certain time on account of want of good faith, on account of the want of waiting on righteous monks with wrong inclinations of false faith in. creasing and good inclinations of right faith decreasing, got 'michhatta'-false faith rooted in him”.
93. Then at a certain time when that Brahmin Somila was keeping awake on account of domestic affairs at midnight a thought of the following description occurred to him : “ Truly, I am a Brahmin, Somila by name, born in a very high Brahmin family I had practised the vows of a Brahmin, I had studied the Vedas, I had married ( lit. invited ) a wife, children were born to me, I had acquired riches, I had performed · the pasubandha' sacrifice, I had performed explanations of his questions from Lurd Pars'wa wiibout his asking the nature of soul etc., he realises the philosophical importane of the pnssage and gets Samyaktiva.
* See footnote on p.
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