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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
§ 105. 1
Nirayavaliyão.
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Then that god saluted and bowed down to Somila and disappeared in that very direction from which he came. Then that Brahmin ascetic Somila, being thus spoken to by that god, accepted himself the five Anuvratas which he had formerly accepted.
105. Then that Somila observed the life of a Jain layman (lit. the follower of a Jain monk ) for many years practising various kinds of austerities such as many one day's fasts, two days' fasts, three days' fasts (and so forth, down to) half-monthly fasts and monthly fasts, and having done so he mortified himself by practising halfmonthly fasts (for twelve years), and having observed Anasana of monthly fasts he, without making confession or expiation for that wrong act (of ill-initiation), and having thus violated Samyaktva, and having met with death at the time of surcease, became born as the great planet Sukka with the dimension of the capacity of: a divine being in the celestial bed, in the assembly Uvavaiya in the Vimana Sukkavadinsaa.
106. Then that great planet Sukka, as soon as he was born, became gifted with the Manabaparyaya knowledge (a knowledge by means of which the thoughts and feelings of the minds of other people are
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