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animals. Parshva-muni tolerated all these afflictions with equanimity. Meghmali's anger reached its peak. (P-4/1)
Now he created dark and dense clouds in the skys. The sky was completely covered by dark rain-bearing clouds. With fearsome rumbling and thunder and lightening it started raining heavily. Meghmali caused so much rain that it flooded the whole area. Parshva-muni tolerated the torment of this torrential rain like the Meru mountain. The water level rose and it reached the tip of Parshvanath's nose. He was still unmoved in his meditation. At this peak of the affliction, the throne of god Dharanendra trembled. He came to know about the incident through his divine powers and reached the spot with Padmavati. One of these snake-gods created a platform under the feet of Parshva-muni and the other a canopy of its multiple hoods over his head. Dharanendra admonished Meghmali who then fell at the feet of Parshva-muni and sought his forgiveness. (P-4/2)
After eighty three days of penance and spiritual practices Parshva-muni came to Ashrampad garden in Varanasi and stood in meditation under a Dhataki tree. With fast increasing purity he attained omniscience on the fourth day of the dark half of the month of Chaitra. The gods created the divine pavilion. Bhagavan Parshvanath gave his first discourse on the form of religion. He propagated the four dimensional religion (Ahimsa, truth, non-stealing and nonpossession) for upliftment of the soul.
Inspired by the discourse of Bhagavan Parshvanath, many members of his family including his father Ashvasen, mother Vama Devi, and wife Prabhavati took Diksha from him. Many other princes and scholars including the famous Vedic scholar Shubhdatta also took Diksha after hearing to his discourse. Bhagavan Parshvanath established the four pronged religious organisation. He had eight chief disciples with Shubhdatta being the first and most senior.
Although no detailed mention is available about the areas visited by Bhagavan Parshvanath, it can be surmised from various incidents and related stories that he covered a considerably wide area of the subcontinent. It appears that he visited Kashi-kaushal (Uttar Pradesh), Nepal, Bang (Bengal), Kalinga (Orissa), Anga (Magadh), Vidarbh, Konkan, Saurashtra etc. Among his followern were Shakya kings, rulers of Magadh (grandfather and father of king Shrenik) and many others.7
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In Jain scriptures there is a mention of an incident of Bhagavan Parshvanath's period that has not been much talked about. It is the initiation of 206 old spinsters in his ascetic organisation. At different times many old spinsters from merchant families from a number of towns took Diksha into Bhagavan Parshvanath's organisation and indulged in spiritual practices. But due to some faults in minor codes of discipline and death before doing 'equired भगवान पार्श्वनाथ
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