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FOUR AND TWENTY TIRTHAMKARAS 65 Ones) the Early Christian teaching mentioned the same characteristics of Their Existence in Nirvana as are given in the Jaina Scriptures:
“ There shall be no mor; death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain."-Revelation sxi. 4.
".... in which there is neither sleep, nor pain, nor corruption, nor care, nor night, nor day measured by time .... eye has not seen nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him."-A.N.C. Lib., Vol. ix. part ii, p. 50.
“For the incorruptible nature is not subject to generation; it grows not, sleeps not, hungers not, is not wearied, suffereth not, dies not, is not pierced by nails and spears, streats not, drops not with blood. Of such kind are the natures of angels and of souls released from the body. For .... these are of another kind, and different from these creatures of our world, which are visible and perishing."--Ibid., p. 88.
About the permanence of the condition of Liberation it is said :
56.... and they shall reign for ever and ever.”_ Revelation sxii. 5.
The correspondence is marvellous in each detail! We may, then, take it that the number of the Perfect Ones, the Siddhas, is very large. while the Tirthamkaras are only four and twenty.
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