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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Nirayavaliyão.
desired,
is my wife loved (and so forth, down to) no ailments or diseases due to wind, bile, cough, or all the three have overpowered her, but, O you beloved of the gods, she, being aversed to this worldly existence, and afraid of the pain of birth and death+, wishes, after having got herself bald-shaved, to get herself initiated before you, the beloved of the gods. Therefore, O you beloved of the gods, I offer to you this alms of a female disciple. May you, beloved of the gods, therefore, accept this alms of a female disciple. Then the nuns answered: "As you please, O you beloved of the gods, do not have any obstruction. "
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120. Then that house'wife Subhadda, being thus spoken to by the Suvvaya nuns, and becoming greatly pleased and delighted, herself removed her ornaments, garlands and jewels, and having done so she herself performed the 'Panchamutthiya Loya'-the plucking out of hair in five handfuls-and having done so she went to the Suvvaya nuns and circumambulated them three times from the left to the right + This shows that her aversion to worldly life was not a result of worldly miseries, but it was the result of her knowledge and inner convictions of the transitory and miserable nature of this worldly life.
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