Book Title: Nirayavaliyao
Author(s): A S Gopani, V J Chokshi
Publisher: Gurjar Granthratna Karyalay

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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org 92 The Last Five Upangas (III. Lect. 4. 46 delighted, saluted and bowed down to those nuns three times, and having done so she spoke to them thus: "O nuns, I believe in the Doctrine of the Nigganthas, I trust it, I like it, O Jain nuns! It is so, exactly as it is, and true" (and so forth, down to) she accepted the twelve-fold duty of a laywoman. And the nuns blessed her saying: As you please, O you beloved of the gods: don't have any obstruction in practising it. Then that house'wife Subhadda in the presence of those nuns (and so forth), and having done so she saluted and bowed down to those nuns, and then took their leave. Thus that house wife Subhadda became a lay-disciple of the Ascetic Lord Muhðvira ( and so forth, down to ) passed her time happily. Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir 19 "" 116. Then at a certain time, when it was mid-night and when that Subhaddã, the lay-disciple of the Ascetic Lord Mahāvîra, was keeping awake for family affairs, a thought of the following description occurred to her: Truly I enjoy great sexual pleasures with the householder Bhadda, but I am not able to give birth either to a son or a daughter. It is good for me, therefore, to take permission of Bhadda to-morrow when the sun will be shining brightly, and to become For Private and Personal Use Only

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