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 Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir 100 The Last Five Upangas ( III. Lect. 4. so, and having mortified herself by the penance of half-monthly fasts (in which thirty meals are cut off ), and without making confession and expiation for that sin ( of nursing and fondling children), and having met with death at the time of surcease, she was re-born in the Sohamma heaven, in the Vimana Bahuputtiya, in the assembly hall Uvavảya, in the bed for the gods, clad in divine garments and with the dimension of the innumerable part of a finger. . 126. Now that goddess Bahuputtiyã, as soon as born, became endowed with five kinds of fulness of faculties (and so forth 885, down to ) the full development of the faculties of speech and mind. Truly, in this way, 0. Goyama, that goddess Bahuputtiya experiences that celestial and divine prosperity. 127. Then Goyama asked : “O Venerable. Sir, why is she called the goddess Bahuputtiyā.” Then Mahãvira answered: "O Goyama, the goddess Bahuputtiya, whenever she attends on Sakka, the lord and the king of gods, creates (by means of her divine power), many boys and girls and then goes to: Sakka the lord and king of gods and shows. to Sakka, the lord and king of gods, the celestial divine properity, the celestial divine For Private and Personal Use Only

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