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 134 The Last Five Upangas [V. Lect. 1. Jamali, down to) he went out to hear him. And having heard the religious instruction he said: "O you beloved of the gods, I shall take the permission of my parents (here he is to be described renunciating the world and becoming a houseless monk and So forth, down to) a self-restrained monk exactly as Jamali. 181. Then that houseless monk Viranga studied under the patriarch Siddhattha the eleven Angas such as Samaiya and others and having done so he observed two day's fasts and so forth, down to ), and having observed asceticism for full forty five years, and having mortified himself by two monthly fasts in which one hundred and twenty meals are cut off, and having made confession and expiation for his sins, entering into meditation and meeting with death at the time of surcease, he was re-born as a god in the Bambhaloa heaven, in the Manorama Vimana. There the duration of the lives of certain gods is exponnded to be ten Sãgarovamas. There the duration of the life of the god Viranga is also expounded to be ten Sagarovamas. לי Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir 182. Now that god Viranga, having dropped down from at the expiry that heaven For Private and Personal Use Only

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